more info for rsyncs not exiting problem

[Jessica Koeppel]

Apologies for not including this info in the first place!
My rsycn version is:

rsync version 2.4.6 Copyright Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras

And my OS is:

Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686

--jessica

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:43:44PM -0800, Jessica Koeppel wrote:
> 
> I'm having a problem where my rsync processes don't exit.
> 
> They finish their task.. but they don't exit. I'll see at the
> end, if i'm running -vv, something like:
> 
> total: matches=727  tag_hits=771  false_alarms=0 data=2034655738
> 
> but the process continues to run, but not do anything apparent.
> 
> If I strace the process, I see a ton of:
> 
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000})  = 0 (Timeout)
> gettimeofday({1005367039, 462927}, NULL) = 0
> wait4(1220, 0xbffff950, WNOHANG, NULL)  = 0
> gettimeofday({1005367039, 463050}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({1005367039, 463109}, NULL) = 0
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 20000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> gettimeofday({1005367039, 482839}, NULL) = 0
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000})  = 0 (Timeout)
> gettimeofday({1005367039, 492969}, NULL) = 0
> wait4(1220, 0xbffff950, WNOHANG, NULL)  = 0
> gettimeofday({1005367039, 493093}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({1005367039, 493152}, NULL) = 0
> 
> Any idea what's going on?
> 
> I did a brief search but didn't find anything. I can look
> more, but thought I'd ask in case anyone happens to know
> off the top of their head just what I should be looking at.
> 
> BTW, when I run a small rsync as a test, it seems to work fine, at
> the end I get:
> 
> 
> total: matches=0  tag_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=0
> root/
> root/
> wrote 91 bytes  read 36 bytes  84.67 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> 
> and the process exits just fine.
> 
> In the cases where rsync isn't exiting, i've let some of them
> run for over a day, still nothing.
> 
> Thanks,
> --jessica

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