On Thursday 12 February 2004 06:38 pm, jw schultz wrote: > You have run out of memory.
According to the FAQ-o-matic, rsync needs about 100 bytes/file. I am copying about 1,000,000 files, so that comes out to roughly 100MB. The system has 192MB of physical RAM. Of course, the kernel and all the other daemons and what-not need memory, but there should still be enough for rsync. I was successful when copying fewer files at a time. When I copy 300,000 files, rsync's RSS is 50MB after building the file list, and while it is copying, the RSS rises to about 75MB. I conclude that rsync actually needs as much as 250 bytes/file. This explains why 192MB is insufficient when I want to copy 1M files. -- Ray Lischner, author of C++ in a Nutshell http://www.tempest-sw.com/cpp -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
