Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-21 Thread Christophe Lyon
It ends with: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed See the issues and debugging page for lots of hints about what that means and how to go about debugging it. Thanks for the hint. However, I couldn't use the --rsync-path option: there is no error message, but the option is not taken into

Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Christophe Lyon christophe.l...@gmail.comwrote: When using rsync-3.0.8 from Ubuntu, it seemed to be looping with make_file(usr/bin/head, ...). Do you have a bind mount in that hierarchy that points to a higher directory in the same hierarchy, and thus would

Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-20 Thread Christophe Lyon
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Wayne Davison way...@samba.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Christophe Lyon christophe.l...@gmail.com wrote: When using rsync-3.0.8 from Ubuntu, it seemed to be looping with make_file(usr/bin/head, ...). Do you have a bind mount in that hierarchy

Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Christophe Lyon christophe.l...@gmail.comwrote: It ends with: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed See the issues and debugging page for lots of hints about what that means and how to go about debugging it. One new thing in 3.1.0dev is the --msgs2stderr

rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-17 Thread Christophe Lyon
Hi, I have been using rsync for years to perform my backups, but since a few days it crashes with an out of memory error. I am running Ubuntu 11.04/x86_64, which ships rsync-3.0.8, and I have also tried with the git version. I can see the following messages: [generator] expand file_list pointer