KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
> Le Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:20:29 -0700, dan a écrit :
>
>> i guess that main problem is that rsync is going to use what it needs,
>> no more no less. If you limit rsync's memory it wont just use less
>> memory, it will throw a fit. If rsync runs out of ram it will crash.
>> Also, I think that if you use a memory limitor like ulimit or vlimit
>> then rsync cant use any swap so you really will get a crash.
>
> So, the better solution can be use another transport method like "tar"
> over ssh ?
You are just trading resource usage here. If you have plenty of
bandwidth tar will work with less memory consumption. A side effect of
using tar is that you'll miss old files in their new locations under a
renamed directory in incremental runs, though.
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Les Mikesell
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