rsync - Apr 2002 - memory requirements was RE: out of memory in build_hash_table

Well, for reference, here's what I'm running:

The mirror is running Solaris 8, the source is running Solaris 7.  Both are
running the same version of rsync:

rsync  version 2.5.4  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
no IPv6,
              64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

The command being run on the mirror is:

/usr/local/bin/rsync -qau --delete --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh source:/share/abc/.
/share/abc/

"Granzow, Doug (NCI)" wrote:
> 
> From what I've observed by running top while rsync is running, its
memory
> usage appears to grow gradually, not exponentially.  A rsync may take
> several hours to complete.  (I have one running now that started over four
> hours ago.  The filesystem contains 236 GB of data in 2.4 million files. 
It
> is currently taking up 1351MB of memory on the mirror server and 646M on
the
> source server.)  All filesystems are veritas filesystem, in case that is
> relevant.
I just killed a 750M rsync (2.5.5) process. It had been runing for over
12 hours. (around 62G in 1.2 million files)..  This was a local rsync
without any ssh/remsh/rsyncd involved. I went back to the 'for file in
*;do rsync blaa;done' method. This helps it run in a reasonable amount
of time and RAM. I'd still like to be able to run a rsync on the
toplevel (without the for loop...)

eric