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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] possible memory leak on restore
From: |
dean gaudet |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] possible memory leak on restore |
Date: |
Wed, 24 May 2006 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT) |
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Mike Weisenborn wrote:
> I have a fairly good-sized (34G) backup set of which 17G or so is the
> current data, and another 17G is the last 30 days of incrementals.
>
> I'm trying to create a snapshot of this data in another location by doing
> this:
>
> rdiff-backup -r now /target0/backups/host /snapshot/20060523/host
>
> The problem is, it runs until it gets about 8.4G restored, and then
> memory usage grows from about 90M to about 520M. At that point it
> basically grinds to a halt (swapping).
weird... fwiw i did a ~110GB restore a few months ago... didn't run into
this problem...
> I ran it with verbosity of 9 and nothing looked out of the ordinary at
> the time when it basically stopped.
is there something odd with the file it was trying to restore at that
time?
do you have a tmpfs on /tmp or /var/tmp ?
-dean