Re: Increasing per process memory limit?

[Fredrik Henbjork <frehe491@student.liu.se>]

Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> I'm using rsync to keep my Mail folders synced but now that the folder
> contains almost 240000 files rsync dies and says:
> 
> ERROR: out of memory in make_file
> rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at
> /usr/ports/net/rsync/w-rsync-2.5.2/rsync-2.5.2/util.c(232)
> 
> Is there a per process limit of memory that each process can use? I
> observed memory usage with top and saw that rsync used up to 32MB and than
> died. I looked at sysctl and ulimit (-d and -s) but couldn't find the
> solution. What can I do?
> 
> Ragnar

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Fredrik Henbjork <frehe491@student.liu.se>