rsync pauses

[David Somers-Harris]

I'm using FreeBSD on amd64, so strace doesn't work :(. Is there something
else which is as easy to use?

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 23:38, Justin T Pryzby <justinp at norchemlab.com>wrote:

> I assume it's doing I/O, you can start a strace on the process to see
> for sure.  Note that the rsync client usually forks a few times, so
> you may want to strace all of them (strace -p X -p Y -p Z), or launch
> the command under strace (strace -f CMD ARGS).
>
> Justin
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:09:35PM +0900, David Somers-Harris wrote:
> > rsync pauses during transfers. That is, while I'm watching the verbose
> > output, it will run through lots of files and then pause at an arbitrary
> > point and do nothing for around 3-15 minutes and then it will pick up
> again.
> >
> > I'm using both -v and --stats. Why would this be? Is it scanning the
> > directory?
> >
> > Both source and destination have rsync 3.0.8 and FreeBSD 8
>
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