Subject: Re: rdist eating up VM
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Laine Stump <laine@MorningStar.Com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/14/1997 09:49:13
Luke Mewburn writes:
> Laine Stump writes:
> > David Brownlee writes:
> > > 	Just out of curiosity, are there any plans to integrate the latest
> > > 	rdist 6.1.3 from USC (ftp://usc.edu:/pub/rdist/)?
> > 
> > I just looked at this. One plus-side is that it is no longer required to
> > be suid-root. On the minus-side is that your must keep around the old
> > rdist if you want to be able to rdist to or from other machines running
> > old rdist.
> > 
> > Heck, all I want is to make it through an entire run without exhausting
> > my VM! :-O
> 
> Does it use mmap()? I had a similar problem with rsync because of
> this; disabling use of mmap() fixed the problem

Nope.