out of memory in flist_expand

Rob klein Gunnewiek r.kleingunnewiek at bwss.nl
Mon Aug 25 11:30:59 GMT 2008


Wayne Davison wrote:
> [...]
> 
> That will tell you what the last realloc attempt was before the error.
> If it is a really huge value, check to see if you have a directory with
> a huge number of files in it.  You should also check your process's
> memory ulimit values to see if they are too small, and try using a
> different compiler or malloc package to see if your malloc is having
> trouble with memory fragmentation.

I have compiled rsync 3.0.3 with the ptmalloc library
(http://www.malloc.de/en/), now it works!

Thanks again for your suggestion.

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Rob klein Gunnewiek
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