Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Hamish Guthrie writes: > I am sorry to harp on about this, but, it gets back to my analysis of > rsync under backuppc a few months ago - I still think that we need to do > an implementation of File::RsyncP in C as opposed to perl. I have done > some memory requirement analysis of a raw rsync ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-06 Thread Hamish Guthrie
Carl, I am sorry to harp on about this, but, it gets back to my analysis of rsync under backuppc a few months ago - I still think that we need to do an implementation of File::RsyncP in C as opposed to perl. I have done some memory requirement analysis of a raw rsync backup of a large filesys

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-05 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:07:11 -0700 Craig Barratt wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > > > On 09/03 06:22 , Hamish Guthrie wrote: > > > I am sorry to harp on about this, but, it gets back to my analysis of > > > rsync under backuppc a few months ago - I still think that we need to do > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-05 Thread Craig Barratt
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > On 09/03 06:22 , Hamish Guthrie wrote: > > I am sorry to harp on about this, but, it gets back to my analysis of > > rsync under backuppc a few months ago - I still think that we need to do > > an implementation of File::RsyncP in C as opposed to perl. > > You

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-05 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/03 06:22 , Hamish Guthrie wrote: > I am sorry to harp on about this, but, it gets back to my analysis of > rsync under backuppc a few months ago - I still think that we need to do > an implementation of File::RsyncP in C as opposed to perl. Your point is well-taken and I'm willing to acce

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-02 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/02 05:09 , David Relson wrote: > For the curious, the locate command indicates I have 2927627 files > using 46 GB of the single partition HD. that's a healthy number. the box I have with the most files, only has 3/4 million (developer's workstation). that will likely change as I'm now backin

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-02 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:46:06 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:29, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > > I'm running a machine with 512MB ram and 1GB swap and BackupPC is > > > triggering Linux's OOM (the out of memory killer) and that's making it > > > impossible to backup my

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:29, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > I'm running a machine with 512MB ram and 1GB swap and BackupPC is > > triggering Linux's OOM (the out of memory killer) and that's making it > > impossible to backup my main machine. > > > > At the moment VSZ for the 2 _dump proces

Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

2005-09-02 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/01 07:24 , David Relson wrote: > I'm running a machine with 512MB ram and 1GB swap and BackupPC is > triggering Linux's OOM (the out of memory killer) and that's making it > impossible to backup my main machine. > > At the moment VSZ for the 2 _dump processes are at 527m and 425m and > rsy