rsync 2.5.6 hanging

Hardy Merrill hmerrill at redhat.com
Tue Nov 18 04:05:24 EST 2003


Zachary Denison [zacharydenison at yahoo.com] wrote:
> 
> I get the same exact results on redhat 7.3 and redhat
> 8.0 so I dont think it is a redhat issue.  Also if I
> use an earlier version of rsync (version 2.3.4), then
> I still get the same problem, but it doesn't crash as
> quickly as the 2.5.6 version.

You didn't answer my questions - assuming you are running
rsync 2.5.6 on the "source" machine:

   1. what version of rsync is running on the ftp server?
      ("destination" machine)

   2. if you know the exact file that it gets stuck on,
      then how big is that file?

Again, not sure I can help you yet, but the answers to
those questions may give either me or others the clues
needed to help you.

-- 
Hardy Merrill
Red Hat, Inc.


> 
> 
> 
> --- Hardy Merrill <hmerrill at redhat.com> wrote:
> > FYI - RHL 6.1 is no longer supported  - from a Red
> > Hat
> > perspective that is :-(  See the Red Hat "Errata:
> > Security
> > Alerts, Bugfixes, and Enhancements" page here
> > 
> >    http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
> > 
> > You may indeed get help here since this list is an
> > rsync
> > list.  If I knew what your problem might be I'd try
> > to
> > help you myself, but I don't so hopefully someone
> > else will
> > chime in with some ideas for you to try.
> > 
> > One question I do have is what version of rsync is
> > running on the ftp server?  Also, if you know the
> > exact
> > file it gets stuck on, how big is that file?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Hardy Merrill
> > Red Hat, Inc.
> > 
> > Zachary Denison [zacharydenison at yahoo.com] wrote:
> > > I am using rsync 2.5.6 on redhat linux 6.1 with
> > 1gb
> > > ram.  What I would like to do is mirror a
> > directory on
> > > the server to another server for backup purposes. 
> > The
> > > server is an ftp server and the main directory in
> > > question is 77GB consisting of 391000
> > subdirectories
> > > and files.  when I run rsync with the following
> > > command:
> > > 
> > > /usr/bin/rsync -av --rsh=ssh --stats --progress
> > > --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync --delete --force
> > > --exclude=logs/ /ftpfs/ 10.10.1.237:/ftpfs/
> > > 
> > > it starts to transmit some files and then gets
> > stuck. 
> > > Actually now it is stuck on one file and every
> > time I
> > > run it it it "freezes" as it is transmitting the
> > file:
> > >  as in the example below:
> > > 
> > >       196608  22%  629.92kB/s    0:00:01
> > > 
> > > then it just hangs..
> > > 
> > > I have 1gb of ram in the machine so it shouldn't
> > be a
> > > lack of memory issue.  I would greatly appreciate
> > any
> > > ideas.  thank you..
> > > 
> > > Zach.



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