rsync - Mar 2006 - Rsync / Cygwin : Cannot Allocate Memory

Hi,

I'm running the latest cygwin, with rsync 2.6.6 protocol 26.

My command is:
c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -vrtz --delete /cygdrive/e phoenix@172.16.1.10  etc 

I get the following error when trying to rsync 500,000 files:

rsync: fork failed in do_recv: Cannot allocate memory (12)
rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at main.c(550)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12)
at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/io.c(434)

Of course, this doesn't happen with a smaller fileset.  I'd prefer to
not have to break up the transfer, as the programmers tend to just
create directories wherever they please and don't tell me when they do,
then complain that their stuff isn't backed up (been there).

But I'm kinda lost - I found a post that says each file uses 100 bytes,
the reference poster was trying to archive 5,000,000 files - which is
far more than I am.  According to that post, my memory requirements
would only be 50,000,000 bytes.  50MB.  Even if that doubled since the
post, it'd still only be 100MB.

The odd thing is, It WAS working with rsync 2.5.1-dev (from an
rsync_minimal archive I found on the web) - except that one was crashing
on a 2GB file (damn outlook pst files), but I was getting past the
filelist part.

I tried upping the memory for cygwin, because the new version has a
limit of 384MB, and I thought MAYBE the dll I grabbed had no limit - but
upping to 1024MB didn't work.   

This is on a Win2k box.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Rick

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:20:18AM -0600, Rick Romero
wrote:
> rsync: fork failed in do_recv: Cannot allocate memory (12)
This error is happening on the receiving side, and you seem to have only
mentioned the OS and memory for the sending system (I assume -- you
didn't explicitly say).  Is the receiving system also running cygwin?
What is its version rsync?

..wayne..