300,000 files should not be that terrible for rsync.
But, as shipped by Apple, it leaks; and it leaks much, much more
when it encounters items with ACLs (just noticed the fact recently).
Do your file/folders all have an ACL?
[...]
If you are satisfied with rsync's capabilities as of 10.4.9, I have
today amended my rsync binary (see my post dated May, 6th) so as to
avoid -or at least, minimize- memory leaks.
I haven't tested it against 5 million files, but my own trials
against 1,5 million files with lots of them having an ACL tend to
show it should work with much more files.
I would be a pleasure to send a copy of the binary to anyone
interested in trying it.
Alex,
where are the leaks you mention? Are they in the code added by
Apple's patches (the ones in EA.diff) or are simply triggered by ACL
but not specifically in that code?
I am writing to the rsync list as I would like to try to manually
apply those patches to the rsync3 trunk, but to make all that effort
to apply something that is partially rotten would be even more silly
than it is already..
If the changes are reasonably simple, can you let me have them (a
diff -u between your sources and the rsync-24.1 original sources
would be fine I suppose).
I copy you directly as the list distribution times are presently a
joke (no prize to guess what the reason might be).
Thanks
Giuliano
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