rsync takes long pauses in xfer ?

[Alan McKay]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay+rsync at gmail.com> wrote:
> What option do I need to pass ps to find out?

OK, I checked the man page and I see that using BSD-style options
gives me this so I set up my cron job to collect data

If I see another drop off like that I'll post the results.

Oh hey, but look - right now one of my processes seems to be in that state :

root     20991 16.0  0.5 206900 142328 pts/2   D+   Jun11 189:43
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded
--include-from=/usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.d/include
--exclude-from=/usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.d/exclude /data
/mnt/1J4400/rsnapshot/daily.0/ZFS/
root     20992  0.0  0.2 192136 64776 pts/2    S+   Jun11   0:34
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded
--include-from=/usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.d/include
--exclude-from=/usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.d/exclude /data
/mnt/1J4400/rsnapshot/daily.0/ZFS/
root     20993 16.8  0.2 239588 73776 pts/2    S+   Jun11 199:08
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded
--include-from=/usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.d/include
--exclude-from=/usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.d/exclude /data
/mnt/1J4400/rsnapshot/daily.0/ZFS/