I see there is quite a bit discussion on the list about rsync hanging on a
variety of conditions, one of which I seem to be having. We use rsync to
update remote servers over night. Each system syncs with a master server
holding around 4.0 gig of data. Normally there is very little change on
the master so rsync only updates a few files each night. My problem is
that I am now upgrading the servers and need to sync all the data to the
new systems and rsync is hanging like crazy. Sometimes it moves a few
hundred meg and sometimes it only moves one or two files and then hangs.
My master server is RedHat 6.2 running rsync 2.4.6 (from source - no RPM).
The remote server is RedHat 7.0 with rsync 2.4.6 (from source - no RPM).
Things were actually better when the master was running rsync 2.4.3 but it
still hung. The remote server is a PIII 850 with 512 megs of RAM so I
doubt this is a memory problem. Even at 100 bytes per file would not
consume all the memory on the remote system. The master only has 112 Meg
but I assume the file list is kept on the remote and not the master..
My command is rsync 192.168.0.12:/home/image /home/image -e ssh2 -avz
--delete
Is there something I'm doing wrong? What can I do to prevent rsync from
hanging all the time??
I've tried removing the --delete and -z options but it still hangs..
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Steve Ladendorf
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Blake School
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality". --Albert
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