Re: [Duplicity-talk] apparent memory leak on OS X

[edgar . soldin]

On 30.01.2012 09:27, Brian Gitonga Marete wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 December 2011 19:29, Johann Heller <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I'm seeing the same large memory leak on Mac OS X. Details below:
>>
>> OK, I think I've got a handle on this.  In our old tarfile.py, Ben
>> Escoto had commented out a part of the TarFile class that kept a cache
>> of all the TarInfo objects that went into the TarFile.  His comment
>> for the change was about how it took too much memory.
>>
> 
> I am hitting this issue on Ubuntu 11.04 with duplicity 0.6.17. On a
> ~50GB backup, duplicity will eventually take up around 3G of memory.
> On a 4G machine, all I get is thrashing and have to kill the backup
> job before it completes.
> 
> There does not seem to be any fix already committed. Could you kindly
> mail a patch to the list? Or recommend a quick work-around? (For
> example which commit to revert if you think that will work?)
> 

check the related branch on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/908228

mt committed this a week ago, it's not merged though, i think .. ede/duply.net