On 09/01 07:24 , David Relson wrote: > I'm running a machine with 512MB ram and 1GB swap and BackupPC is > triggering Linux's OOM (the out of memory killer) and that's making it > impossible to backup my main machine. > > At the moment VSZ for the 2 _dump processes are at 527m and 425m and > rsync is at 256m (see below). How can I reduce BackupPC's memory > demands???
try using tar instead of rsync; it has much lower memory requirements. (tho it has many other limitations). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
