I have here a script with which I was able to reproduce this issue on
Debian 7, Debian 9, Ubuntu 17.04 for rsync 3.1.2 (Ubuntu 17.04 apt repo)
and 3.1.3 (built from source).
https://pastebin.com/ctzJJGwt
It essentially creates a folder with 11.5k files of size 600KB and 10
files of size 200MB, ho
A few weeks ago one of my five rsync backup processes that runs from a
daily cron 03:00 am has started failing with this exact issue.
I can only manually reproduce it when executing my rsync command with
tripe verbosity:
rsync -avvv --delete /source_dir /target_dir
Manually calling rsync with le
