https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13913
--- Comment #5 from Gene <gj...@sapience.com> --- I see similar problem using rsync 3.1.3 (both client and server on Arch Linux). This happened after user duplicated local copy of their Thunderbird profile - a directory of roughly 42 GB of maildir+ files - so lots of files. The nightly root backup, rsync from client to server, fails hanginng in select() according to strace. After the hang occurs rsync as root on even a small file hangs in select as well - adding -vvv produces no additional output and nothing is happening on the server. The hang is local to the client rsync. rsync as an ordinary user at this point, however, does works normally. Then - as the user who created the large mail dir, I rsync'ed to the server - this runs for a while and transfers a few GB then hangs. At this point the network is fine, same user can ssh to the server and all appears normal aside from rsync hanging. Restarting the network kicks the rsync process to continue - which again hangs after a few more GB of data transferred. This was repeated until all 42 GB were now on backup server. After this - running the normal rsync as root now works fine again. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html