--timeout not honoured

[Fabian Cenedese]

Hi

I already wrote about this problem half a year ago but didn't get
an answer: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2009-June/023412.html

I'm using rsync 3.0.3 on a NAS. In the parameter list I use --timeout=1800.
But still I often have rsync stall much longer than that.

Some examples:

2009/12/14 23:14:35 [8707] io timeout after 11670 seconds -- exiting
2009/12/14 23:14:35 [8707] rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(239) [sender=3.0.3pre1]

2009/12/14 00:20:04 [19046] io timeout after 15485 seconds -- exiting
2009/12/14 00:20:04 [19046] rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(239) [sender=3.0.3pre1]

2009/12/12 22:15:21 [29732] io timeout after 8082 seconds -- exiting
2009/12/12 22:15:21 [29732] rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(239) [sender=3.0.3pre1]

2009/12/11 23:14:23 [30216] io timeout after 11613 seconds -- exiting
2009/12/11 23:14:23 [30216] rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(239) [sender=3.0.3pre1]

I know that 3.0.3pre1 is not the newest version, but as this is running
on a NAS it's not that easy to update or compile a newer version.

However, why is it that rsync waits much longer than given in --timeout?
Shouldn't timeout work that way?

Thanks

bye  Fabi