At 06:58 24.08.2007 +0200, Samuel Vogel wrote:
>I don't think this is possible. Pretty much no services except ssh are running 
>on the machine that I'm running the rsync client on. The partition I'm 
>transferring the files to hast 400GB of space left and 3.7 GB of my 4GB memory 
>are still free...
>Any other suggestions?
>
>Do you think it could be possible that the machine which I'm fetching the data 
>from run out of ram? I think the the client should have thrown some error 
>message at least.

What rsync version are you using? Up to he last official (2.6.9) there
seems to be an error that rsync can deadlock, see here:

http://marc.info/?l=rsync&m=116932447411768&w=2

I also had this problem, especially with big files over ssh. I now tried
the current cvs version and it works much better, it never stalled anymore
in the last few days.

bye  Fabi


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