"fork failed in do_recv: Not enough space"

[Matt McCutchen]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:51 -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> I'm using rsync 2.6.9 under Solaris 10. The file system I'm trying to
> sync has ~7.6 million files. Here's what happens:
> 
> # rsync -avS . /newfiles1 
> building file list ... done
> rsync: fork failed in do_recv: Not enough space (12)
> rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at main.c(709) [receiver=2.6.9]
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453) [sender=2.6.9]
> #
> 
> Anyone know what's going on?

Probably the machine is out of memory.  Either free up some memory,
break the rsync run into smaller pieces, or try a development version of
rsync 3.0.0, which has an incremental recursion algorithm that avoids
holding a list of all the source files in memory.

Matt