Not much help but I've had rsync trying to backup to another machine crash the target machine with a kernel oops. This seems to be less likely to happen if I remove the --delete option and/or the --progress option. Can't see why a user space application should crash the computer in such a way. One theory is that the network card/driver can't handle the load, if you have the option try a quality NIC with a decent buffer & DMA.
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, David wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > <quote who="David"> > > > > > I am using the bwlimit option on rsync. If I don't use it, rsync hangs. > > > Can anyone suggest why this is so, and how I figure out what bwlimit > > > should be? I've started at 25 and worked my way up to 300 so far, as a > > > process of trial and error. > > > > Are you doing this over PPP? You may want to check your MTU. This has been > > a problem for me in the past. > > this is on an ethernet lan > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
