Re: [Duplicity-talk] apparent memory leak on OS X

[edgar . soldin]

On 02.12.2011 19:48, address@hidden wrote:
> I am using Duplicity 0.6.16, installed using Macports on Mac OS 10.6.8.
> The Python process is using upwards of 3GB of RAM.
>
> I am not doing anything exotic, only testing the app by backing up about
> 370GB to an external drive. My command arguments are:
>
> /opt/local/bin/duplicity -v 8 --exclude /private/var/vm/ --exclude
> /private/tmp  --exclude /.Spotlight-V100 \
>         --exclude /.fseventsd --exclude-other-filesystems /
>         file:///Volumes/external/backup/
>
> The command does eventually succeed but it slows everything to a crawl
> for hours while it runs (even an incremental).

on some platforms/python combinations the threading does not properly close gpg 
processes sometimes. check your process list. are there lots of duplicity 
subprocesses kept alive?

> I found this FAQ for rdiff-backup:
> http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/FAQ.html#leak
SNIP

you seem to use a more recent librsync than mentioned in the faq above so this 
should be fine.

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