Problem with transfering large files.

[Dave Dykstra]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:52:26AM -0500, Carey Jung wrote:
> >
> > Not so.
> >
> >      --timeout=TIMEOUT
> >           This option allows you to set a maximum IO  timeout  in
> >           seconds.  If  no  data is transferred for the specified
> >           time then rsync will exit.  The  default  is  0,  which
> >           means no timeout.
> >
> > The 2400 second timeout means that the connection must be _idle_ for 2400
> > seconds. It does not mean that the session can not last for more than 2400
> > seconds total.
> >
> 
> 
> My experience is that this is broken in at least 2.4.7pre1.  Whatever
> timeout one sets seems to be interpreted as 'total runtime' for the rsync
> invocation.  I now set to 0, which means "don't timeout".

On September 9 Tridge submitted a fix to CVS for that problem.  See
revision 1.25 at
    http://pserver.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/generator.c

- Dave Dykstra