On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:38:22 +0200
Jindřich Makovička <makov...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 13:54:13 +0200
> Jindřich Makovička <makov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > Applying the attached patch, which reduces the default allocation to
> > 32 pointers, and preallocates 32K pointers only for the main file
> > lists in send_file_list and recv_file_list, reduces the peak memory
> > usage in my case from 142MB to 12MB.  
> 
> The original patch breaks the testsuite due to extra messages in the
> output.

Actually it makes more sense to change the debug print to check that
the original pointer is non-null and leave the testsuite as is.

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka
>From bdfdef1c5a4437e2492da148b824d39ba235704e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jind=C5=99ich=20Makovi=C4=8Dka?= <makov...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:01:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Reduce memory usage

Start only with 32 entries for the partial file lists, instead of 32k.
---
 flist.c | 4 +++-
 rsync.h | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flist.c b/flist.c
index 3442d868..0f7a64e6 100644
--- a/flist.c
+++ b/flist.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static void flist_expand(struct file_list *flist, int extra)
 
 	new_ptr = realloc_array(flist->files, struct file_struct *, flist->malloced);
 
-	if (DEBUG_GTE(FLIST, 1) && flist->malloced != FLIST_START) {
+	if (DEBUG_GTE(FLIST, 1) && flist->files) {
 		rprintf(FCLIENT, "[%s] expand file_list pointer array to %s bytes, did%s move\n",
 		    who_am_i(),
 		    big_num(sizeof flist->files[0] * flist->malloced),
@@ -2186,6 +2186,7 @@ struct file_list *send_file_list(int f, int argc, char *argv[])
 #endif
 
 	flist = cur_flist = flist_new(0, "send_file_list");
+	flist_expand(flist, FLIST_START_LARGE);
 	if (inc_recurse) {
 		dir_flist = flist_new(FLIST_TEMP, "send_file_list");
 		flags |= FLAG_DIVERT_DIRS;
@@ -2541,6 +2542,7 @@ struct file_list *recv_file_list(int f, int dir_ndx)
 #endif
 
 	flist = flist_new(0, "recv_file_list");
+	flist_expand(flist, FLIST_START_LARGE);
 
 	if (inc_recurse) {
 		if (flist->ndx_start == 1)
diff --git a/rsync.h b/rsync.h
index 88319732..17f8700e 100644
--- a/rsync.h
+++ b/rsync.h
@@ -918,8 +918,9 @@ extern int xattrs_ndx;
  * Start the flist array at FLIST_START entries and grow it
  * by doubling until FLIST_LINEAR then grow by FLIST_LINEAR
  */
-#define FLIST_START	(32 * 1024)
-#define FLIST_LINEAR	(FLIST_START * 512)
+#define FLIST_START	(32)
+#define FLIST_START_LARGE	(32 * 1024)
+#define FLIST_LINEAR	(FLIST_START_LARGE * 512)
 
 /*
  * Extent size for allocation pools: A minimum size of 128KB
-- 
2.33.0

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