On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ole Tange wrote:
> >
> > Is there any other thing that can influence on the RAM usage? E.g. version
> > of glibc, version of kernel, version of filesystem?
>
> To lay some foundation for the environment in which you are seeing
> this problem the following information would be useful. Can you
> determine the version of your libc? And other useful information.
See previous mail.
> I can't see how but the type of the filesystem may have an effect
> there. Might as well check. What does 'df -T' say about the
> filesystem that you are copying from and to. Just the filetype is
> needed from that information.
>
> df -T .
/dev/hda6 reiserfs 15703020 15281560 421460 98% /
> Since you are seeing this problem but Jim is not I suspect it is a
> difference based upon the differences in the way ./configure builds
> your binaries.
Computer 1 is a heavily modified Mandrake 8.2.
Computer 2 is an up-to-date Gentoo.
Both show the same problem.
> An #ifdef there that takes the code into a different
> path. But perhaps not. In which case the failure is a data
> dependent. Do you see anything particularly interesting about the
> input tree? Filenames really long? Really short? Lots of them in
> one directory? Files already hardlinked many times? Something
> unusual?
Files already hardlinked many times. See previous mail.
/Ole
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