>>>>> "Ned" == Ned Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ned> I have been having an on-going problem completing rsync
Ned> transfers. The transfers simply stop at seemingly random
Ned> points without printing an error message. Rsync still
Ned> continues running however all network activity dies. I can
Ned> verify that all communications stop using tcpdump.
Ned> I experience this while uploading to an anonymous rsync
Ned> server as well as using ssh as the transport. If I keep
Ned> restarting the transfer it will eventually complete. I am
Ned> using rsync to back up entire Linux filesystems, so the
Ned> transfers are quite lengthy.
Hi Ned (and other rsync@samba denizens),
I'm also experiencing (and trying to track down) this problem on a
sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 platform using a 2.4.3 rsync-daemon for
transport. I am also still trying to track down the (possibly
related?) "unexpected EOF in read_timeout" problem.
As another data point, this seems to happen mostly with large mirrors
but nonetheless doesn't seem to be a memory issue (but I'm not
absolutely positive about that).
I'm running the client/reciever sides from a nightly cron job. I kick
off about twelve or fourteen jobs (of varying sizes and varying
"changing-ness"). Usually the smallish ones finish pretty quickly; no
more than an hour or two at very most and that's more or less sensible
relative to their size and the bandwidth available. Two or so of the
larger ones (and not always the same two, but often then same two)
will take fourteen to eighteen hours or more and then, to add insult
to injury, puke with unexpected EOF. Running just one of these failed
jobs manually (as practiaclly the only thing running on a system with
scads of memory, both physical and virtual) still usually yields an
"unexpected EOF", but much quicker (twenty minutes or so).
The machines in question have their O/S stripped down to the bare
minimum, so I can't easily snoop/tcpdump from them, but netstating
suggests very, very low network traffic (the rsync jobs run in the
middle of the night when there is precious little other traffic).
Wierd.
Regards,
Neil
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