Call for testing Cygwin snapshot (rsync mem use)
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Dec 19 15:27:00 GMT 2005
On Dec 18 08:56, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Using the --delete switch to rsync with a large number of files causes
> the rsync process to use large amounts of virtual memory with recent
> snapshots, including 20051216. With a DLL built from CVS on 20051110,
> this doesn't happen.
>
> The easiest way I found to reproduce it was to run the command:
>
> % rsync -avRP --delete --exclude='*~' /usr /etc /sbin /some/dest
>
> twice. The second time, the rsync process will consume hundreds of MB of
> memory. With the 20051110 snapshot, the rsync process stays under 9 MB.
Thanks for the report. I've applied a fix and the next snapshot should
be "back to normal".
Corinna
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