Re: rsync 2.5.5 and Mac OS X

2002-07-01 Thread Dave Dykstra
I compile rsync on Mac OSX (not sure of the osx version, but uname -a says it's darwin 5.5) but haven't tried running as a daemon. I suggest that you try to debug it further. setgroups() is only called one place, in clientserver.c, with parameters setgroups(0, NULL), and only if the define HAVE_

Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-07-01 Thread Olivier Lachambre
At 17:09 30/06/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Olivier, > >> Well, the first comment: during my work, I wanted to verify that the >> theorical optimal block size sqrt(24*n/Q) given by Andrew Tridgell in his >> PHd Thesis was actually the good one, and when doing the tests on randomly >> generated & modi

Rsync woes with large numbers of files

2002-07-01 Thread Stuart Inglis
Hi everyone, I recently read a thread about the problems people are having with file systems with a large number of files on them. We have a 80GB file system with ~10 million files on it. Rsync runs out of memory on a 512M RAM machine while (I assume) reading in the list of files to send. To avo