From c5c7bcdd456266070644ecbba8adfaeb5b15d5b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:41:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: link the workaround for big directory syncs in the FAQ #7974 --- docs/content/faq.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/content/faq.md b/docs/content/faq.md index add4e1938..050caf8ef 100644 --- a/docs/content/faq.md +++ b/docs/content/faq.md @@ -233,9 +233,11 @@ value, say `export GOGC=20`. This will make the garbage collector work harder, reducing memory size at the expense of CPU usage. The most common cause of rclone using lots of memory is a single -directory with thousands or millions of files in. Rclone has to load -this entirely into memory as rclone objects. Each rclone object takes -0.5k-1k of memory. +directory with millions of files in. Rclone has to load this entirely +into memory as rclone objects. Each rclone object takes 0.5k-1k of +memory. There is +[a workaround for this](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/wiki/Big-syncs-with-millions-of-files) +which involves a bit of scripting. ### Rclone changes fullwidth Unicode punctuation marks in file names