On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:12:21PM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:27:37AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't think anybody is going to be able to tell you. > > I've not heard of anybody lately posting a similar problem. In the > > past hanging problems have been traced to many different sources. > > Rsync stresses network (and filesystem) implementations greatly, and > > combining it with ssh stresses things that much more. I think it's > > worth a try to use openssh 3.1 or 3.2 (I've not been happy with versions > > after 3.2). What's the network between the local and remote machines? > > Does the name /nfs/mirror imply that the files are not directly mounted > > on "remote" but are instead on an NFS server? That has been the cause > > of many problems in the past. > > Actually, it turns out that my testing on this issue has been invalid > since I've been using the -vvv flag to rsync to get a grip on where > it's hanging. But I just discovered that the -vvv flag itself seems > to cause rsync to hang. So all the testing I've done so far is useless, > so I'm not sure whether this is related to openssh or the slow connection > or what. I know that the problem exists in 2.5.5, but I need to do more > testing without the -vvv flag to figure out what's causing it. Is it > well-known that the -vvv flag can cause rsync to hang?
That has been shown to cause hangs in the past, but I thought it was resolved. Maybe it hasn't; people don't tend to care so much to solve problems like that once they discover the workaround of removing the verbosity. - Dave -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
