Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-29 Thread Elliott Wilcoxon
Bill C. Riemers wrote: ssh -T foo "tar cfz - somedirectoryorfile"|tar xvvfz - I'm not much of a unix expert, could you explain what that's doing? I know a bit about tar, so I recognize the arguments to it, but I'm not sure how they're interacting. It looks like it might run tar on the remote

Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-29 Thread Dirk Sondermann
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Can anyone in this thread who can actually reproduce this problem attach > to the hung scp process with gdb/strace and see where it hangs (and what > it's doing)? The attachment is the output of strace which was produced after the state of the scp process had changed to '

Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-28 Thread Bill C. Riemers
I remember a post about a month of ago that described the bug in detail. The problem is even more problematic with rsync. The author of the message went on to propose a solution. Unfortunately, I don't think the person was a programmer, so there was no actual source code patch. It doesn't seem

Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-27 Thread Olaf Föllinger
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:42:41AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:36:29PM +0100, Dirk Sondermann wrote: > > > I have also noticed this problem when copying files ~1GB from > > > a remote host to the local host. > > > >

Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:36:29PM +0100, Dirk Sondermann wrote: > > I have also noticed this problem when copying files ~1GB from > > a remote host to the local host. > > > > Strangely, if x is a big file and x0 has just a few bytes, > > scp remote:x .

Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-27 Thread Olaf Föllinger
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:36:29PM +0100, Dirk Sondermann wrote: > I have also noticed this problem when copying files ~1GB from > a remote host to the local host. > > Strangely, if x is a big file and x0 has just a few bytes, > scp remote:x . may hang while scp remote:x* . succeeds. Same observa

Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-27 Thread Dirk Sondermann
I have also noticed this problem when copying files ~1GB from a remote host to the local host. Strangely, if x is a big file and x0 has just a few bytes, scp remote:x . may hang while scp remote:x* . succeeds. Dirk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

Re: SCP doesn't complete transfers of large files

2004-01-26 Thread Reini Urban
Elliott Wilcoxon schrieb: issue. Whenever I try to transfer a file that's a bit over 700MB in size via SCP, it will transfer up to the 99% line, then stall everytime. I can transfer smaller files just fine. This problem can be seen with a current Cygwin install, and it shows up for stuff that