Harald Schueler writes: Harald> On Tue, 31 Oct 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian> * Does it consume huge amounts of system resources ? Dirk> As emacs or gcc. Harald> I use mirror-2.3 for over a year now, and while it works very well Harald> for me, my experience with resource consumption is a little bit Harald> different. On my computer mirror keeps consuming more and more Harald> memory during the transfer. When I mirror a linux distribution for Harald> the first time, mirror needs huge amounts of swap space (more than Harald> 60 MBytes, I can not say exactly how much, because mirror died Harald> before completing the task). This is not a real problem, because Harald> you can always run mirror again and eventually it will have Harald> completed, but I have to ulimit the memory available to mirror, to Harald> keep the system usable.
Well, frankly, I wouldn't do it that way in the first place. If I am to do an initial mirroring, ie when I have _no_ files yet from the remote computer on my local computer, I would simply use "ncftp" with the recursive option, ie "get -R /some/dir/". Mirror is appropriate for keeping to directories up-to-date. Harald> I would like to know if I am the only one with this experience, or Harald> if this is a memory leak in my Perl (4.036, from Slackware 2.2 or Harald> 2.3). I initially got 2.3 for myself, had some troubles, switched to 2.8, used it for a while and then packaged it. I keep a partial mirror of ftp.debian.org (around 110 MB). I runs at night via cron, but while I configured it I also ran it "by hand" a couple of times. Never used more than 5 or so MB according to top. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
