Re: [sshfs] bug report: sshfs-1.8 crash

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> > Is /tmp on tmpfs?  That would mean, that copying files in there could
> > make you run out of memory.
> 
> /tmp was just for this example.
> 
> Everything's being copied from /home to /home which are XFS formatted 
> partition's > 500GB and definitely have enough room.
> 
> > It don't think it's a fuse/sshfs problem, because there have not been
> > any other reports of massive memory leaks in these.  So I suspect it's
> > something else that's causing the memory to run out, and so make sshfs
> > crash because of that.
>  > Miklos
> 
> Has anyone else reported testing this on PPC?  I don't know why, but 
> that may create some oddities.

Maybe.

Can you try to find out why is memory running out?

You can look at the %MEM (or RSS) column in the 'ps uax' output, to
see which processes are using the most memory.

Miklos