Congratulations, you've found a weakness in the ethernet driver. Check up2date, as there may be a kernel update for that. You could also maybe plug in a different type of ethernet card. The kernel is explaining that there's a problem at that level, and your rsync log shows what happens when that problem comes up. Don't worry about adding memory (or swap), as you're likely to be using only a few hundred MB when this happens.
Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services desk:3032734776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are using rsync to mirror around 10 of our websites from dedicated server A to dedicated server B runing RHEL 3.0 and rysnc v2.6.3pre1 in a daemon mode. I am using the following crontab script command on dedicated server A: /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /home/users/admin/publicKey-for-server-B" /home/serverA/site3 serverB::home/mirror Dedicated server B (where the mirroring of websites from server A is done) is sometimes crashing with the following error message from the linux kernel: Aug 29 22:47:02 ns2 kernel: eth0: Memory squeeze,deferring packet. Aug 29 22:47:23 ns2 kernel: eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping The following is the error message from rsync log in dedicated server B: 2004/08/29 22:45:02 [18367] rsync allowed access on module home from ns.serverA.co.uk 2004/08/29 22:45:02 [18367] rsync to home/mirror from ns.serverA.co.uk 2004/08/29 22:45:51 [18367] site3/logs/ 2004/08/30 00:58:15 [18367] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (355347 bytes received so far) [receiver] 2004/08/30 00:58:15 [18367] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 84 bytes: phase "unknown" [generator]: Broken pipe (32) 2004/08/30 00:58:15 [18367] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(909) I've 10 separate crontab rsync scripts for mirroring the 10 websites. I've allowed enough time intervalls so that the each crontab rsync process finishes before the next one starts. Occasionally, however (about once a week) rsync crashes dedicated server B during any one of these 10 crontab processes. I would be very grateful for your help. regards, Daniel. Daniel Berhane bmj.com web administrator The BMJ Publishing Group Limited BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR http://bmj.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6362 Fax: +44 (0)20 7383 6997 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
