Very large memory block.

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Wed Dec 21 21:46:48 GMT 2005


Using rsync-2.6.6, I'm getting:

   unable to alloc 417794083 bytes

Under what circumstances would rsync allocate a block that large? Must it be
able to allocate a block as large as the largest file or something? Is there a
way to limit it?

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