Re: [BackupPC-users] memory usage

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 09/01 07:24 , David Relson wrote:
> I'm running a machine with 512MB ram and 1GB swap and BackupPC is
> triggering Linux's OOM (the out of memory killer) and that's making it
> impossible to backup my main machine.  
> 
> At the moment VSZ for the 2 _dump processes are at 527m and 425m and
> rsync is at 256m (see below).  How can I reduce BackupPC's memory
> demands???

try using tar instead of rsync; it has much lower memory requirements. (tho
it has many other limitations).

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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com