From 2f4dc50f1965becbe4a06478254beb4c2fdec4ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:52:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak comment in memory-usage section. --- faqbody.html | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/faqbody.html b/faqbody.html index 58e3e50..228fc22 100644 --- a/faqbody.html +++ b/faqbody.html @@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ file list structure containing all the vital details of each file. rsync needs to hold structure in memory because it is being constantly traversed. -I do have a plan for how to rewrite rsync so that it consumes a fixed -(small) amount of memory no matter how many files are transferred, but -I haven't yet found a spare week of coding time to implement it! +A future version of rsync could be built with an improved protocol that +transfers files in a more incremental fashion, which would require a lot +less memory. Unfortunately, such an rsync does not yet exist.
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