[rdiff-backup-users] Memory benchmarks and some questions

2008-05-09 Thread David
Hi list. With regards to my previous mails (memory usage problems, possible hardlink bug issues), I ran some benchmarks, and have some questions which hopefully someone (hopefully a developer) can answer. Here are the steps I followed (and which can be re-produced by interested parties) for the b

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Memory benchmarks and some questions

2008-05-09 Thread Dave Kempe
David wrote: b) Won't this cause problems when backing up huge (millions+) files to a memory-limited backup server? Hi, not sure what you mean by memory limited, but I definitely back up lots of repos with rdiff-backup and have never noticed any problems with memory usage. However transferri

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Memory benchmarks and some questions

2008-05-09 Thread David
> Hi, not sure what you mean by memory limited Well, by my calculations (500 kb on average per 10,000 files), rdiff-backup would need 64 MB for 1.3 million files, and 1 GB for 20 million files. That could be a problem. I haven't actually tested with that many files yet. Also, my tests were for al