On 2019-08-16, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does that mean openrsync tries to mmap() the entire file? >> The machine only has 256MB of memory, but it does transfer >> a test file of 300MB, so that can't be it. > > I forgot about 1GB swap, so that's why it works > for files up to around 1.2G, but not larger.
Why would the size of physical memory + swap matter? mmap() doesn't copy a file into memory, it maps it into the address space. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
