On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Johann Heller wrote:
Hi all, I'm seeing the same large memory leak on Mac OS X. Details below: While trying to backup about 1 million files with duplicity I noticed a large memory leak. The leak seems to grow depending on the number of files processed. The leak seems to affect versions 0.6.16 and 0.6.17. Version 0.6.15 works without a leak.
I'm seeing this as well, on Ubuntu Natty i386. Duplicity 0.6.16 and
0.6.17 are affected while 0.6.15 is fine.
I can also confirm this on Fedora 16, x86-64. Fedora just updated from 0.6.14 to 0.6.17, and my incremental backups started taking 2.5G of RAM (resident, about 8G virt). The swapping prevented the backups from finishing in a timely manner (i.e., overnight), and made the system unusable in the meantime. Downgrading to 0.6.14 resolved the problem, and last night's backup completed normally.
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