Hi everyone. Has anyone experienced rsync 2.6.0 causing huge amounts of system load? Especially on Linux 2.4?
We recently upgraded our "push" machine to rsync 2.6.0 and the next push that went out (rsyncing about 3GB of data to 15 servers sequentially over gigabit ethernet) caused the box to hit 110.59. We only know the load because snmpd was still working, but nothing else in userspace was. We couldn't see if rsync was causing this.. but upon reboot we regressed to 2.5.7 (the rpm install version from RH8.0), and there was no more load problem. We do know that the files did get updated on 2 of the 15 servers, though not completely on the second one. Its entirely possible that this was something else.. but the box had never locked up like this, and it happened precisely after rsync was upgraded. I haven't been able to reproduce it in our test environment, and I'm not too keen on taking the box down again just to confirm this. However, I wouldn't mind doing so if it meant fixing a major bug in rsync. We love rsync here and would be served quite well by the new from_list option. Oh, and one other thing... whats up with this: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1294978 Jan 30 12:54 /usr/local/rsync-2.6.0/bin/rsync -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216785 Dec 3 20:42 /usr/bin/rsync Has rsync really added 5 times as many features? More error checking? Just curious really. They're both stripped binaries in case thats what you were thinking. ;) Some maybe helpful info: Network: HP2824 24 port gigE switch Push Server: Software: RedHat Linux 8.0 - Kernel 2.4.20-28.8, ext3 fs, rsync 2.6.0 Hardware: P4 2.2Ghz, i850 chipset, 1GB DDR RAM, 4xSCSI 10krpm-U160 drives in software RAID10. Intel e1000 32-bit NIC. Receiving Servers: Software: RH8.0, various kernels, ext3 fs, rsync 2.5.7 Hardware: ranging from dual p3-800's to dual P4-3.0Ghz, 1GB RAM - 4GB RAM. Some IDE, some SCSI disks in RAID10, RAID0, or RAID1 depending on the box. Some gigE, some 100Mbit. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
