[Bug 10312] Rsync times out during deletion on big folders

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10312

--- Comment #1 from Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson at gmail.com> 2013-12-19 13:54:52 UTC ---
Hello,

I encounter same issue, I have sometimes a huge amount of files to delete.
Rsync daemon can take a lot of time to delete them, leading Rsync client into a
timeout...

Another similar situation encountered is when the daemon is hard-linking a very
huge amount of files (when the client uses --link-dest) and takes a very long
time to perform this task.

According to Wayne : both sides of the transfer try to periodically send a
keep-alive message if too much time has elapsed since some data was
transferred.  However, Rsync does not always check this enough in some
circumstances. Version 3.1.0 has an improved keep-alive setup that may help.

Note that Wayne has improved keepalive process even after 3.1.0 release :
https://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg29431.html

I have not tested it yet, but I plan to do it to know whether or not it
resolves timeout problems during deletion and hard-linking.

Ben

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