bert hubert wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:48:25PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
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>>Klaus Dittrich wrote:
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>>>rsync-2.6.2 of a large disc using 2.6.8-rc2 (I also tried 2.6.7-bk14)
>>>stops with "kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process xxxx" messages
>>>during filelist gathering.
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>>>When this happens only 1.4 GB out of 2 GB RAM and no swap is used.
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>>>No problems with kernel 2.6.7.
>>>(Peak RAM usage during filelist gathering was 1.8 GB, no swap)
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>>Hi Klaus,
>>What arguments are you running rsync with? Also, how many files, and
>>how large are they?
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>And can you show the output of 'vmstat 1' during rsync? This is the second
>report of linux 2.6.8-rc? eating all memory, btw.
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Fine to know that it is no local problem. Output of vmstat 1 is appended.
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Klaus