Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 15:11:04 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: de-bsd-hubs@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirror and perl Message-ID: <199603161311.PAA22977@grumble.grondar.za>
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"Christoph P. Kukulies" wrote: > > My freebsd.org mirroring is still very flaky using mirror.2.3 > and perl5.001. > Once, when trying to mirror larger trees, I got an Out of Memory! > message in my mirror log file and this happened during scanning the > remote site. I'm now running the mirror script with the -F option - > btw there is a bug in the mirror script, bigtmp is mixed up with > bigtemp. It sounds like maybe you have either 1) a bug in mirror (I vaguely remember something about memory leaks here. I know it is only scripts, but this memory is quite persistent for reasons I cant quite fathom) 2) non-PHKmalloc linked in. > I have subdivided the scan now into scanning smaller sub trees > but there still seems to be a memory leak or something eating > abnormally much memory. I'm using the -F option on mirror > to allows the use of .db files but still I get sometimes > pieces in the wrong places. E.g., I scanned /pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ > but the subdirs of distfiles landed in /pub/FreeBSD/ (!). > > Anyone knowing a stable combination of mirror (version/pl) and perl > version/pl ? I Have _just_ submitted perl5.002. Please try that... M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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