Re: [rdiff-backup-users] debugging weird memory error

[Andrew Ferguson]

Rolf Braun wrote:
> Exception '' raised of class 'exceptions.MemoryError':
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py",
> line 32, in check_common_error
>     try: return function(*args)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py",
> line 878, in listdir
>     return self.conn.os.listdir(self.path)

Try running rdiff-backup with "-v 5". That will give you a list of
files/directories that are being processed. The last few lines should
give you a clue as to what is going on (ie, where on the filesystem it
is failing).

If we can believe the above exception backtrace, it claims that it is
failing on the Python call "os.listdir()". This call returns a list of
all the files in the given directory. If you have a directory with some
staggeringly large number of files, it's certainly conceivable that it
could cause an out of memory error.

I know Mac OS X Tiger Mail now uses individual files for each message
... temp directories are another place to look.

Cheers,
Andrew

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