rsync processes hang and client failing on "max connections"

[Rami Addady]

> Maybe kill -9 <pid> helps?
Yes it help ! thanks

But why is happened ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jurrie Overgoor" <jurr at tref.nl>
To: "Diburim" <diburim at active.co.il>; <rsync at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: rsync processes hang and client failing on "max connections"


> Maybe kill -9 <pid> helps?
> This is more of a brute-force kill (mass slaughter! ;) ), and it'll close
> the application without asking it to do so itself....
>
> Just a quick suggestion though...
>
>            Greetz -- Jurrie
>            jurr at tref.nl
>
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: Diburim <diburim at active.co.il>
> Aan: <rsync at samba.org>
> Verzonden: donderdag 11 april 2002 11:01
> Onderwerp: rsync processes hang and client failing on "max connections"
>
>
> > rsync processes hang and client failing on "max connections",
> > I can't kill rsync process.
> >
> > The temporary work around are:
> > increase max connections in /etc/rsyncd.conf
> > or
> > reboot the server !
> >
> > The client get this error:
> > @ERROR: max connections (6) reached - try again later
> >
> > $ ps -aux | grep rsync
> > admin    30408  0.0  0.0  1696  232 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 [rsync]
> > admin    28121  0.0  0.0  1688   40 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 [rsync]
> > admin    29137  0.0  0.0  1724   40 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 [rsync]
> > admin    30430  0.0  0.0  1724   40 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 [rsync]
> > admin    11476  0.0  0.0  1688   40 ?        S    Mar27   0:01 [rsync]
> > root      4529  0.0  0.6  2412 1704 ?        S    Apr10   0:03
> > rsyncd --daemon
> > admin    16211  0.0  0.2  1368  520 pts/0    S    02:48   0:00 grep
rsync
> >
> > Some rsync process never exit they are up for ~20 days.
> > I can't kill them, nothing happen when I try to:
> > kill 4529
> > kill 30408
> > etc...
> >
> > rsync is started from inetd
> > rsync  version on the server 2.5.2 clients are 2.5.2 and 2.5.4
> >
> > Please advise
> >
> > Dib Urim
> >
> >
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