Hi, This is perhaps a stupid question. I apologize in advance if it's already been covered, but I'm stumped...
I'm using rsync to backup some file systems to a remote host. The transport is openssh-2.9.9p2. The problem does not occur when the transport is rsh. I'm invoking rsync as follows: rsync -RlHptgoD --numeric-ids -e "ssh" -rzx --stats . remotehost:/nfs/mirror But it hangs when there are large numbers of files in the "." filesystem. If I run with -vvv, I see lots of make_file entries as send_file_list starts sending the list of files to the remote host, but then it freezes after around 4500 to 6500 make_file messages. I see the same problem with versions 2.4.6, 2.5.5, and 2.5.6pre1. And I see it on linux 2.4.18 (red hat 8.0) and solaris 8/x86. I can get it to work by breaking it up into chunks of 1000 files or so. It might work with more, I haven't tested exhaustively. I have tried using the --blocking-io and --no-blocking-io options, but neither one solves the problem. I could provide more info about where it hangs, but I thought somebody might know the answer, since this is clearly related to the interaction with openssh (since there's no problem with rsh). Is there a trick to make rsync work nicely with openssh? I searched the archives and haven't found anything... Does upgrading to openssh 3 solve the problem? Thanks, Andy -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
