rsync hanging with openssh-2.9.9p2 as the transport
Andrew J. Schorr
aschorr at telemetry-investments.com
Tue Jan 14 22:30:01 EST 2003
Hi,
This is perhaps a stupid question. I apologize in advance if it's already
been covered, but I'm stumped...
I'm using rsync to backup some file systems to a remote host.
The transport is openssh-2.9.9p2.
The problem does not occur when the transport is rsh.
I'm invoking rsync as follows:
rsync -RlHptgoD --numeric-ids -e "ssh" -rzx --stats . remotehost:/nfs/mirror
But it hangs when there are large numbers of files in the "." filesystem.
If I run with -vvv, I see lots of make_file entries as send_file_list
starts sending the list of files to the remote host, but then it freezes
after around 4500 to 6500 make_file messages.
I see the same problem with versions 2.4.6, 2.5.5, and 2.5.6pre1.
And I see it on linux 2.4.18 (red hat 8.0) and solaris 8/x86.
I can get it to work by breaking it up into chunks of 1000 files or
so. It might work with more, I haven't tested exhaustively.
I have tried using the --blocking-io and --no-blocking-io options, but
neither one solves the problem.
I could provide more info about where it hangs, but I thought somebody
might know the answer, since this is clearly related to the
interaction with openssh (since there's no problem with rsh).
Is there a trick to make rsync work nicely with openssh? I searched the
archives and haven't found anything... Does upgrading to openssh 3 solve
the problem?
Thanks,
Andy
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