(CYGWIN) Rsync Stalling Upon first file transfer.

[Matt McCutchen]

On 9/4/07, Jonathan Hurd <texasjhurd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rsync will recieve the file list, and discover the files to consider, and
> then stalls out on the first actual file transfered.

This is a well-known problem caused by bugginess in the Cygwin
pipe/socket code.  It is being tracked in this rsync bug report:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2208

As a workaround, try setting a --bwlimit as described in the bug report.

Matt