Problem with transfering large files.

[tim.conway at philips.com]

i meant to send this to the whole list... maybe someone else has seen it and can figure out how to fix it.

Tim Conway
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perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, 19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), ".\n" '
"There are some who call me.... Tim?"

---------------------- Forwarded by Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS on 09/20/2001 08:37 AM ---------------------------


Tim Conway
09/20/2001 08:36 AM

To:   Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> @SMTP
cc:
Subject:  Re: Problem with transfering large files.  (Document link: Tim Conway)
Classification:     Unclassified



I know that's what the docs say, but I have found that i have to set the timeout to be at least as long as the time it takes to send the largest file.  If it doesn't handle any protocol data, only data data, for the timeout time, it drops.  I can't trace
the execution well enough to figure out why, or to fix it.  I'm pretty sure that's what's going on, because if you leave timeout=0, it sets select_timeout to 60.  When i ran with what should be no timeout at all, it choked on any significant file.

Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
303.682.4917
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
Longmont, CO 80501
Available via SameTime Connect within Philips
Available as n9hmg on AIM
perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, 19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), ".\n" '
"There are some who call me.... Tim?"




Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> on 09/20/2001 07:32:04 AM

To:     Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS at AMEC
cc:     lasse at netcraft.se
        rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject:  Re: Problem with transfering large files.
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:15:12PM -0600, tim.conway at philips.com wrote:
> Easy enough... look at your parameters.  You're saying that you must not transfer more than 480000kb in a session... you actual mileage will be slightly smaller, because of overhead.  You have limited yourself to a bandwidth of 200kbps for a duration of
> 2400 seconds.
> A single 400Mb file would take a minimum of 2048 seconds at 200kbps, all by itself.

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.

  Scott.