> C. Bensend wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:42:34PM -0600:
>
>> I'm running into some problems with my home backup server. It
>> uses rsnapshot to grab backups from multiple hosts several times
>> a day, and saves them to dual 1.5TB drives.
>>
>> Recently, I've begun getting rsnapshot failures, such as this
>> one:
>>
>> ERROR: out of memory in receive_sums [sender]
>
> Probably not related to ports, but "out of memory" often means that
> you are hitting a memory limit, not that you are running out of
> physical memory (and swap).
>
> Did you already look at the ulimit builtin command in ksh(1)?
I figured I'd try here first, since it was rsync complaining (and
hopefully someone has seen rsync do this previously).
I had thought about limits, but this particular process runs as
root and should therefore be relatively unhindered... But, I will
be the first to admit I'm not up to speed on limits, I might be
missing something obvious. An interesting point you mention - ksh -
I don't run that as root's shell. I might try switching it for
tonight's run just to see if behavior changes.
Thanks!
Benny
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