On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> 
wrote:
>
>>  > It would be sort-of interesting [...]
>
> ... to get some answers to the questions we are asking. It's not out of
> curiosity. I don't really care what your server looks like. I just don't like
> wasting my time with guesses when you couldn't be bothered to give more than a
> vague description of what you are seeing.

I am curious about this.  I recall when people first started using
64-bit perl saying that memory use ballooned much more than expected
on some programs.   I don't know if there was a bug that has been
fixed or if those people just bought more RAM.

>> So, I think it behooves you to figure out where these 10GB are being
>> consumed...
>
> Yep. Presuming they are consumed and you're not just reading the wrong column
> of your htop output.

He did say that the program was crashing - which was the real issue,
and that excluding things fixed that.  So I think we have enough to
establish that there is a problem related to the size of the directory
tree.   But, with memory prices these days, I think if you know that
you are short of memory, you also know an easy solution.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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