Rsync, Perl and samba filesystem (smbfs)

[Dave Dykstra]

Also, you'll probably want to use the --whole-file option of rsync to
minimize the amount of samba network traffic (although J.W. is probably
right about the main problem being in perl).  That's the default in later
versions of rsync when copying between two local file paths.

- Dave Dykstra

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:49:41PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:33:38PM -0600, 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
> 
> The fact that the rsync process is defunct tells me that it
> isn't rsync.  Defunct (also known as the zombie state) means
> that the process has exited but the parent (your perl
> script) has not reaped the status with wait().
> 
> It sounds like your perl script is reading from the rsync
> output and failing to check for EOF.  If you described or
> better sent your perl script someone might be able to help.
> 
> 
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> 	J.W. Schultz            Pegasystems Technologies
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