rsync seems to hang when --delete option is used.

[Marc G. Fournier]

Actually, I get similar on our system(s) for very large directory 
structures ... I've changed my scripts so that it times out after 15 
minutes and re-tries up to 5 times before considering it a failure, which 
appears to have 'gotten around' the problem ...

When it hangs, i've tried setting truss -p again both the server side, and 
receiver, and nothing seems to be happening on the server, and periodic 
'select()'s happen on the receiver ...

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:05PM -0500, Tony Shum wrote:
>> When I use --delete option, it seems to hang for over 8 hours on 4.5Gb
>> of total data.
>
> The --delete option causes rsync to read the local hierarchy, and
> construct a list of files to compare with the remote file list.  If it
> is hanging, I'd imagine that there is some kind of a read problem on the
> local system -- perhaps an NFS mount is down or something.  I can also
> imagine that a recursive mount of a file system (e.g. a "bind" type of
> mount) could cause rsync to loop back on itself creating the local file
> list, but that would cause rsync to bloat until it ran out of memory.
>
> Some suggestions for you:  attach to the hung rsync with a debugger and
> see where it is hung -- you should be able to see what file/directory it
> is working on reading, and that should help you to narrow down the
> problem.  Alternately, run run rsync using a system-call tracer to see
> what it was doing prior to the hang (see the issues page on the rsync
> web site for how to get a remote rsync to run under the strace/truss
> program).
>
> ..wayne..
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