Les Stott wrote:
>>>> I know of people who do it; but they're doing it on machines with more
>>>> memory and fewer files.
>>>>       
>> Just add lots of swap.
>>
>> I was able to rsync an archive with several million files on a machine 
>> with just 256 MB RAM; it had several gigabytes of swap.
>>
>>
>>   
> Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data 
> size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running?

As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one HDD 
to another.
It was about 80 GB or so, full of hardlinks.

The machine was pretty responsive, but I had to increase the swap size 
several times and start from scratch again.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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