rsync out of memory problem

Steve Thompson smt at lookout.corning.com
Sat Jun 14 02:39:06 EST 2003


Using an rsync (V2.5.6, Tru64 Unix 5.1A) command of the form:

	rsync -avz --delete /some/dir remhost:/some/other/dir

where /some/dir has about 460,000 files in it, I get:

building file list ... done
ERROR: out of memory in make_file
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at /usr/common/src/rsync-2.5.6/util.c(115)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /usr/common/src/rsync-2.5.6/io.c(165)

However, rsync has only increased in resident size to about 72 MB at this
point, while I have limits of:

	cputime         unlimited
	filesize        unlimited
	datasize        8192MB
	stacksize       1024MB
	coredumpsize    unlimited
	resident        16033MB
	descriptors     4096
	addressspace    8192MB

Any comments? I have not seen anything in the archives that addresses
this. Thanks,

-smt




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