On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:02:28PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:49:20PM -0700, Bill Geddes wrote: > > Am I running out of memory on the source server? Seems perhaps more > > plausible than on the client - it has nothing going on and 1Gb RAM. > > The server has rsync version 2.5.5. The client has 2.5.6. > > Yes, it looks like the sender is running out of memory. > Break the job up.
The important factor is the number of files. Rsync uses up some memory for every file it looks at in a run. That's why JW said to break it up into smaller jobs. > > I am currently mounting the server directory via NFS, and using rsync to > > copy from the mounted directory to the target. Slow, but it is running! > > If you continue over NFS be sure you do checksums of > everything afterward. NFS has (or at least used to) a > measurable error rate. Rsync is optimized for a slow "network" and high speed "disk" access. If you're doing NFS over a slow network, that looks to rsync as a slow "disk". If you can, it's probably better to run rsync directly on the server. - Dave -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
