How do you debug memory usage?

[David]

>  Rsync uses a lot of memory:
>    http://www.samba.org/rsync/FAQ.html#4
>  rdiff-backup uses librsync, not rsync.
>  I'm not sure if rsync uses librsync, but one could speculate that
>  they share some code and perhaps some of the same problems.
>  But 2GB seems excessive unless you are dealing with millions of files.
>  A memory leak seems more likely.
>

Thanks for your input. In case you're interested here's a link to my
post to a local Linux user group:

http://lists.clug.org.za/pipermail/clug-tech/2008-May/040532.html

David.