In article by Tarun Singh:
> Hello Warren,
>
> If possible please help me i am having memory leak problem with rsync
> please let me know this bellow bug is fixed or its continue ?
Tarun, I'm not sure why you sent this e-mail to me. Perhaps you should
try the rsync mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
Warren
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> -- Tarun Singh (Manager System Admin)
> IndiaInfo.com (Mumbai)
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> To: "Tarun Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Help Please .
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> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:28:22 -0400
> Hello Tarun,
>
> The explanation sounds reasonable. I run the rsync from inetd so there
> is no problem with an ever-growing daemon process.
>
> Out of curiosity: why are you asking me?
>
> + Kim
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>
> | From: "Tarun Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:09:47 +0530
> |
> | Hello Kimmo,
> |
> | I am from india and we just install rsync and in that we are having
> | problem with memory leak its eating 50mb every day .Please conf me
> | bellow info is correct or not or this problem having in new ver also ?
> |
> | best regards
> |
> |
> | -- Tarun Singh (Manager System Admin)
> | IndiaInfo.com (Mumbai)
> |
> |
> | why rsync server out of memory
> | ------------------------------
> |
> | The usual reason for "out of memory" when running rsync is that you
> | are transferring a _very_ large number of files. The size of the
> | files doesn't matter, only the total number of files.
> |
> | As a rule of thumb you should expect rsync to consume about 100 bytes
> | per
> | file in the file list. This happens because rsync builds a internal
> | file list structure containing all the vital details of each file.
> | rsync needs to hold structure in memory because it is being constantly
> | traversed.
> |
> | I do have a plan for how to rewrite rsync so that it consumes a fixed
> | (small) amount of memory no matter how many files are transferred, but
> | I haven't yet found a spare week of coding time to implement it!
> |
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