Rsync, Perl and samba filesystem (smbfs)

[Dr. Poo]

Sorry, I should have noted my system to begin with.

I'm running Red Hat 7.2, Perl 5.8.0 and rsync 2.4.6

The smbfs is on a windows NT (2000) server. 

         -Chris

On Tuesday 03 December 2002 04:41 pm, you wrote:
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> I have had the same issue.  Are you running FreeBSD?    Strange.  I've had
> a box up for 200+ days here at work (freebsd)  rsyncing every 15 mins and
> then out ofthe blue  it's hanging on perl script and eating all process +
> swap...
>
> Matt
>
> On Tuesday 03 December 2002 04:33 pm, Dr. Poo wrote:
> > My name is Chris, Hi!
> >
> > I've got rsync being called from a perl script that is called by cron (or
> > for that matter, by hand) and when I 'rsync' a locally mounted samba
> > filesystem (eg. to /mnt/smbfs), it successfully syncs the smbfs to the
> > destination directory, but without reason hangs... and take all my cpu
> > power...
> >
> > When i look at all the processes running, the rsync pid is defuct... and
> > it's actually saying that the parent perl script that made the call is
> > gobbling up all my cpu resources....
> >
> > This ONLY happens (so far anyways) with the samba mounts... Any
> > suggestions??
> >
> >      Thanks a bundle!
> >              -Chris
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