From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264781AbUGSHsb (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:48:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264782AbUGSHsb (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:48:31 -0400 Received: from smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.226]:7847 "HELO smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264781AbUGSHsa (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:48:30 -0400 Message-ID: <40FB7CC9.4060302@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:48:25 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Debian/1.7-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Klaus Dittrich CC: linux mailing-list Subject: Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2 References: <20040718215201.GA840@xeon2.local.here> In-Reply-To: <20040718215201.GA840@xeon2.local.here> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Thanks Nick