Andy Smith via rsync wrote:
> I have a virtual machine with 2G of memory. On this VM there is a
> directory tree with 33.3 million files in it. When attempting to
> rsync (rsync -PSHav --delete /source /dest) this tree from one
> directory to another on the same host, rsync uses all the memory
Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:
> Unfortunately the hard links are the problem. In order to keep
> them straight rsync has to remember the details of every file it
> finds with a link count >1 making it grow and grow.
I _hope_ it is only remembering the source and destination inode
numbers, and
Unfortunately the hard links are the problem. In order to keep them
straight rsync has to remember the details of every file it finds with a
link count >1 making it grow and grow. Of course without -H rsync will
end up duplicating them.
On 6/25/20 10:30 AM, Andy Smith via rsync wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi,
I have a virtual machine with 2G of memory. On this VM there is a
directory tree with 33.3 million files in it. When attempting to
rsync (rsync -PSHav --delete /source /dest) this tree from one
directory to another on the same host, rsync uses all the memory and
is killed by oom-killer.
This
