Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-22 Thread Alberto Accomazzi
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:35:37PM +, Kelly Garrett wrote: Does anyone know how to build a version of the kernel that either does no disk cacheing (we have very fast RAID processors and SCSI disks on the machine) or limit the amount of cache that the system will allocate for disk?

RE: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-21 Thread Garrett, Kelly
: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:09 PM To: Garrett, Kelly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:45:47PM -0700, Garrett, Kelly wrote: After every rsync transfer there is a large amount of memory that is not freed up. Your report sounds

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-21 Thread Jim Salter
will not run with the newer versions of RH yet, so I may have to go to a Sun solution. Cheers Kelly -Original Message- From: Wayne Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:09 PM To: Garrett, Kelly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-21 Thread Kelly Garrett
Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org writes: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:16:34PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: As far as i can tell Under inetd each connection should get independant rsync process(es) which all exit so there would be no rsync processes running unless there is an active

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-21 Thread Kelly Garrett
Jim Salter jim at jrssystems.net writes: IANALG (I Am Not A Linux Guy - FreeBSD is my *nix of choice), but could this possibly be related to the mem:remap Linux kernel bug that was recently discovered? Jim Salter It just might have something to do with this. I have come to the

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-21 Thread Jim Salter
What kernel are you using, and if it's not at least 2.4.x, have you considered simply trying a newer kernel? Jim Salter jim at jrssystems.net writes: IANALG (I Am Not A Linux Guy - FreeBSD is my *nix of choice), but could this possibly be related to the mem:remap Linux kernel bug that was

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-21 Thread Kelly Garrett
Jim Salter jim at jrssystems.net writes: What kernel are you using, and if it's not at least 2.4.x, have you considered simply trying a newer kernel? Jim Salter jim at jrssystems.net writes: IANALG (I Am Not A Linux Guy - FreeBSD is my *nix of choice), but could this possibly

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-21 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:35:37PM +, Kelly Garrett wrote: Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org writes: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:16:34PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: As far as i can tell Under inetd each connection should get independant rsync process(es) which all exit so there would

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:45:47PM -0700, Garrett, Kelly wrote: After every rsync transfer there is a large amount of memory that is not freed up. Your report sounds like you're not talking about process size, but a free-memory report from something like top. If so, Linux uses unused memory as

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-20 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:09:09PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:45:47PM -0700, Garrett, Kelly wrote: After every rsync transfer there is a large amount of memory that is not freed up. Your report sounds like you're not talking about process size, but a

Re: rsync 2.6.0 - suspected memory leak bug

2004-01-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:16:34PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: As far as i can tell Under inetd each connection should get independant rsync process(es) which all exit so there would be no rsync processes running unless there is an active connection. Yes, that's my understanding as well. He also