On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:53:30PM -0800, Herb Maeder wrote: >On 11 Nov 2008 12:22:42 EST, Linus Hicks wrote: >> > So the question is what is wrong? I can't beleive that rsync can't handle >> > with such a big volume of data when it is necessary to transmit only a >> > small part of it. >> > >> > Any ideas and suggestions would be very much appreciated. >> >> This is probably not Cygwin specific, so I suggest you also check on >> the rsync mailing list. > >Actually, it is quite likely that the problem is cygwin specific. The >combination of cygwin-1.5 + sshd + rsync is known to have problems which >make rsync transfers hang. I believe the problem is related to transfering >directories containing large number of files. > >For instance, this hangs for me quite consistently (from some directory not >in /usr): > > rsync -va localhost:/usr/ usr.copy > >See this thread for more details on the problem: > > http://www.sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00863.html > >Basically the problem is rooted in the pipe implementation for cygwin-1.5. >So the good news it that this problem appears to be fixed in cygwin-1.7.
AFAIK it isn't fixed in Cygwin 1.7. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
