On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0400, Matt Miller wrote:I have seen this error in many postings, but the solutions seem not to apply in this case. This error happens during a small file transfer (gif image) and after 75% of a 165G rsync job (the building file list portion is complete.) Most solutions I saw were related to not having enough RAM or running out of disk space. Check out the machine specs below the error.
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4830 bytes: phase "unknown": No buffer space available
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(515)
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 69 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken pipe
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(515)
uptime reports---- 11:17pm up 8:43, 2 users, load average: 1.65, 1.40, 1.33
IBM x330 server
2x1.4GHz PIII
4G RAM
RedHat 7.2 (2.4.7-10smp -- required for veritas)
rsync 2.5.6
local vxfs source and destination (different filesystems) and destination has 800G of free space
(ideally the source will be on another machine, but I made it local to simplify troubleshooting... same problem with an NFS source)
rsync command used: rsync -Wav --stats /sourcedir /destdir >> /opt/rsync.log 2>&1
and syslog reports:
Aug 31 04:07:57 moss kernel: ENOMEM in do_get_write_access, retrying.
Aug 31 04:16:05 moss kernel: journal_write_metadata_buffer: ENOMEM at get_unused_buffer_head, trying again.
anyone seen this?
Not an rsync problem. This is a kernel issue.
You seem to be out of ZONE_DMA memory. I don't know whether you should be reporting this to RH or Veritas or IBM but when you do be sure to send them /proc/slabinfo from the moment of error.
One thing you might try is booting with mem=900M Running with more than 900M < n < 1G memory on 2.4 kernels is problematic.
I am experiencing this same problem with rsync 2.5.6 and 2.5.7. The difference for me is I am running Solaris 8, not Linux. I am using the same procedure to rsync ten different servers to a shared NFS storage, but one of those ten servers comes up with the following error (very similar to above).
rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(103)
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 69 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken pipe
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(515)
Just wanted to mention it was not Linux specific.
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