Re: Common memory usage questions

2010-03-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 11:34 +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 09 Feb 2010, Matt McCutchen wrote: The number of files that rsync tries to maintain in the active file lists at one time is controlled by {MIN,MAX}_FILECNT_LOOKAHEAD in rsync.h. I did some tests with ulimit -v, and reducing

Re: Common memory usage questions

2010-02-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 09 Feb 2010, Matt McCutchen wrote: The number of files that rsync tries to maintain in the active file lists at one time is controlled by {MIN,MAX}_FILECNT_LOOKAHEAD in rsync.h. I did some tests with ulimit -v, and reducing those values helped significantly. That still may not be

Common memory usage questions

2010-02-09 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have started investigating the memory usage of the rsync algorithm since installing OpenWRT on a Linksys WRT160NL router with only 32MB of RAM. I have read several discussions about rsync's use of memory. Rsync consumes all of the memory on my router even when I ensure incremental scanning is

Re: Common memory usage questions

2010-02-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 21:46 -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote: I have started investigating the memory usage of the rsync algorithm since installing OpenWRT on a Linksys WRT160NL router with only 32MB of RAM. Wow, that's pretty tight. Rsync consumes all of the memory on my router even when I