On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:15:59PM +0100, Damian Walker wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I've been using rsync to synchronise a web cluster with a small amount
> of data (about 100 to 200 megabytes), using rsh as transport, and
> everything seems to work fine on it. But when I try the same methods on
> a web cluster with about 4 gigabytes of data, I start having problems
> with rsync and its transport hanging.
What operating system and what version of rsync? What's the full command
line that hangs?
> I started out by simply copying the method from the small server to the
> large one: using a wrapper script to ensure that a second rsync is not
> run when the first one is copying, and using rsync as transport. When
> the process hung overnight, I used loads of -v's to get the most
> information. What I found was that it was hanging in two different
> places, after messages like the following:
Using lots of -v's makes the problem worse; there are known problems with
hanging with lots of -v's.
- Dave Dykstra
