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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:19:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Phillip Salzman <phill@rumfish.corp.gulf.net>
Cc:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory leaks?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911191118180.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911191218550.2781-100000@rumfish.corp.gulf.net>

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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Phillip Salzman wrote:

> > > ---------------------
> > >  Before
> > > ---------------------
> > > CPU states:  1.2% user,  0.0% nice,  0.8% system,  0.4% interrupt, 97.7%
> > > idle
> > > Mem: 7988K Active, 6796K Inact, 14M Wired, 8283K Buf, 222M Free
> > > Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free
> > > 
> > > ---------------------
> > >  After
> > > ---------------------
> > > CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
> > > idle
> > > Mem: 10M Active, 214M Inact, 14M Wired, 10M Cache, 8337K Buf, 896K Free
> > > Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free
> 
> >   I don't really see a problem there.  rsync did hammer the buffer cache
> > though.
> > 
> >   rsync uses a lot of memory because it builds the entire file list in
> > memory before starting.  This makes rsync useless for large filesets.
> 
> 	But why would a machine with 256M of RAM all of a sudden have
> problems with running out of memory during an rsync.  It worked before
> I CVSup'd to the latest -STABLE kernel.  I moved the home directories
> and mail three days ago (not latest -stable), at the same time, without
> difficulty.
> 
> 	I guess I may have to find a way to move the files across that
> isn't so memory intensive.  First i'll see if I can re-create the out
> of memory error with a different util... maybe slam it with web requests.

The odd part is that you aren't swapping at all, but yet it looks like
you _are_ using all available core with rsync.  check your limits.

-Alfred



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