remote files not being deleted

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Fri Feb 27 01:29:36 GMT 2004


On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:05:30AM -0600, Trey Nolen wrote:
> >
> > It may be that you are running out of memory.  --delete
> > causes the a second file list (about 100bytes/file) to be
> > created contianing all the files existing on the receiver.
> > Combined with --delete-after this happens at the time when
> > the memory usage is at its greatest due to copy-on-write and
> > fragmentation.
> 
> 
> Although it looks like my problem was caused by a path problem with 2.5.6
> (I need to specify /. instead of / for the source), I'm interested in this
> memory issue.  Is this file list created on the client side or the server
> side?

Neither.   This delete file list exists only breifly on the receiver.

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