On 03/31/2016 09:24 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > The only thing I know of that's likely to cause rsync to run out of > memory > is when there are a huge number of hard links and you are using the "-H" > option to preserve them. If you're using -H, rsync has to keep a table of all of the files and inode/device number combinations. It'll actually consume *more* memory if you have a smaller number of hard-linked files.