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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Klaus Dittrich <kladit@t-online.de>,
	linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:52:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040719075235.GA10070@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40FB7CC9.4060302@yahoo.com.au>

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:48:25PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> >rsync-2.6.2 of a large disc using 2.6.8-rc2 (I also tried 2.6.7-bk14)
> >stops with "kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process xxxx" messages
> >during filelist gathering.
> >
> >When this happens only 1.4 GB out of 2 GB RAM and no swap is used.
> >
> >No problems with kernel 2.6.7.
> >(Peak RAM usage during filelist gathering was 1.8 GB, no swap)
> >
> 
> Hi Klaus,
> What arguments are you running rsync with? Also, how many files, and
> how large are they?

And can you show the output of 'vmstat 1' during rsync? This is the second
report of linux 2.6.8-rc? eating all memory, btw.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-19  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-18 21:52 rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-19  7:48 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-19  7:52   ` bert hubert [this message]
2004-07-19  8:47     ` Klaus Dittrich
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2004-07-19  9:19 Klaus Dittrich

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