Re: I also am getting hang/timeout using rsync 2.4.6 --daemon

[Andrew Tridgell]

David,

What does "netstat -t" show at both ends when this happens?

The reason I keep coming back to this is that this is the most
reliable way of telling whether the problem is in rsync or the
kernel. It also tells us which end is clagged up.

If one end shows that it has data in the sendq and it is not moving
(see if it changes in size) and the other end shows no data in the
recvq then you know that it must be a kernel bug. We have encountered
that a few of times here with a network card that drops a high
percentage of packets. (dropping packets should not causes this with
tcp, but it seems to trigger a Linux tcp bug).

Cheers, Tridge