> Rsync uses a lot of memory: > http://www.samba.org/rsync/FAQ.html#4 > rdiff-backup uses librsync, not rsync. > I'm not sure if rsync uses librsync, but one could speculate that > they share some code and perhaps some of the same problems. > But 2GB seems excessive unless you are dealing with millions of files. > A memory leak seems more likely. >
Thanks for your input. In case you're interested here's a link to my post to a local Linux user group: http://lists.clug.org.za/pipermail/clug-tech/2008-May/040532.html David. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
