On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Johan Wilfer <lists AT jttech DOT se> wrote:
> 2012-01-02 18:45, Les Mikesell skrev:
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Johan Wilfer <lists AT jttech DOT se> wrote:
>>
>>> When I use the BackupFilesExclude-option I notice that the remote
>>> rsync-server sometimes "goes away".
>> The most likely cause of processes 'going away' would be the linux
>> out-of-memory killer. Is that possible here - perhaps a large number
>> of directory entries? Maybe it isn't the exclude option itself, but
>> the fact that you need to use it for that target.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but it's not the case this time. One of the
> targets it crashes on has only one file.
> Both machines are Debian Squeeze AMD64, the backup server that receives
> the backup has 5GB ram, the client has 12GB.
The OOM killer doesn't necessarily kill the program that uses the most
ram - it is somewhat random. And it doesn't matter how much ram you
have, it is whether something/anything has used it all. Does the
client ever use swap at all - and possibly enough to run out?
> It works one time, next full backup you have to stop. Then it works one
> time. And so on...
A bug in a particular version of rsync is always possible. Is your
version up to date for the distribution?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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