Random Timeouts?

Erich Weiler weiler at soe.ucsc.edu
Fri Apr 16 12:14:48 MDT 2010


Thanks!  I'll give it a shot...

Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Fri 16 Apr 2010, Erich Weiler wrote:
> 
>> As you can see, both sender and receiver are version 3.0.5.  I read
>> the docs and it seems to indicate that by default there is no
>> timeout...? So the error messages are confusing....
> 
> I've found that it can help to actually configure a timeout;
> use the same timeout value on the client rsync as configured in the
> rsync daemon (if applicable), and it works as a sort of keepalive timer,
> forcing a network packet at that time if for some reason one of the
> sides is stalled doing IO.
> 
> 
> Paul


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