On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:56:06AM -0700, Russ Cox wrote:
> Whether you use -q should have no effect on the memory usage.
> There may be a memory leak somewhere involving -q, but at
> first glance I don't see one. Feel free to investigate.
You're right; I glitched. The memory consumption is due
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Fernan Bolando wrote:
> man vac
> "-q Increase the performance of the -a or -d options by detecting
> unchanged files based on a
> match of the files name and other meta data, rather than
> examining the contents of the files"
>
> Why is -q not a default?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:13:09AM +0800, Fernan Bolando wrote:
> Why is -q not a default? Is there a reliability concern with that option?
It uses an astronomically large amount of memory, if nothing else.
Mirroring a little over 100MB of data from sources with vac -q occupies
roughly 85MB in cor
