gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > The OOM death of the system was the xfce4 terminal apparently being > set for unlimited scrollback and that was eating the memory. Switching > to Konsole with has the ability to control the scrollback to 200 > lines, and its taken all 32G's as .cache and 1536 1k blocks of swap, > and its working w/o any OOM actions I've detected.
It does seem strange to me, even in MS-DOS era I was able to set a terminal scrollback to 5000 lines without issue, when RAM was maybe 4 MB and a DOS terminal program probably had access to way less than that. So does rsync really generate gigabytes of verbose output? Or is xfce-terminal storing the scrollback in a very inefficient way?
