I recently installed rsync 2.5.5 on both my rsync server and client being used. I installed the latest version because I was having problems with rsync stalling with version 2.4.6 (I read that 2.5.5 was supposed to clear this up or at least give more appropriate errors). I am still having problems with rsync stalling even after upgrading to 2.5.5. It only stalls in the "/home" tree and there are approximately 385,000 (38.5 MB of memory give or take if the 100 bytes/file still pertains) files in that tree. It doesn't always stall on the same file, but that probably doesn't really matter since this seems like it may be a kernel problem or some other system specific problem. I am curious as to whether or not anyone has seen this problem or knows of a fix for it or if it's something I'm doing wrong. I would be grateful for any information. I'm receiving a couple of error messages (both refer to the same problem as far as I know):
ERROR: out of memory in build_hash_table rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(232) The following are the commands being used from a bash script (not the whole script of course): rsync -zaHlv --progress -e /usr/bin/ssh --exclude log --exclude exim /var/* Server_IP:/home/host/var 2>>$error_log rsync -zaHlv --progress -e /usr/bin/ssh /etc/* Server_IP:/home/host/etc 2>>$error_log rsync -zaHlv --progress -e /usr/bin/ssh /usr/local/apache/conf/* Server_IP:/home/host/usr/local/apache/conf 2>>$error_log rsync -zaHlv --progress -e /usr/bin/ssh --exclude backup --exclude backups --exclude usr /home/* Server_IP:/home/host/home The following is some information about the machines: server running rsync --daemon: Linux RH: Kernel 2.4.9-31 512 MB RAM rsync 2.5.5 OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0 rsync client Linux RH: 2.4.9-31enterprise 2 GB RAM rsync 2.5.5 OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0 Thank you for any help and I would be happy to include any further information if needed. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
