Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Memory usage during regressions

[Claus-Justus Heine]

On 08/06/2011 07:51 PM, Maarten Bezemer wrote:
> I don't know the internals of rdiff-backup, but I do know that there is
> a runtime option to disable compression of .snapshot and .diff files.
> When file operations are done properly, this might be helpful (using
> memory mapped file access instead of decompressing/compressing, so
> effectively using pointers to disk instead of ram).
>
> But I don't know whether it would work that way. The only thing I do
> know is that it will at best help you in the future, as it is not going
> to change anything wrt historic files.

Thanks, Maarten, as Robert pointed out: only the two most recent backups 
are needed for regression, so it is at least worth trying. I was not 
aware of the switch (I probably should RTFM with more concentration).

Best,

Claus