[Box Backup] infinite loop?

[Ben Summers]

On 9 Nov 2004, at 16:07, Charles Lecklider wrote:

> On my boxbackup client (FreeBSD 4.10) I've got this:
>
>   PID NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> 14544   0 49688K 48576K RUN     17.3H 98.10% 98.10% bbackupd
>
[snip]
>
> followed by a bunch of normal housekeeping messages.
>
> It was working fine with 3.5Gb of other stuff, but it's choked now 
> that I added my Maildirs to the list. Anything I can try to make this 
> work, or do I need to find another way to backup large directories?


For the archives:

This has been fixed in version 0.09.

The problem was a bad algorithm which didn't scale to large directories 
very well. It has been replaced with something a little more 
considerate.

Ben