Rsync resource consumption, whilst building a large file list

[Paul Slootman]

On Wed 15 Nov 2006, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> 
> Does rsync build a file tree to a temp file, or is it doing this in memory?

It does it in memory.
However, for less than a few hunderd thousand files it's nothing to
worry about, unless you're doing it on an embedded device or such :-)


Paul Slootman