On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:25:10PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I use unison several times a day to sync over 100GiB of data. > I see it stall quite frequently. I think it's a bug in unison, > possibly timing related. I see it only when syncing over the > internet on a DSL connection, not over a LAN.
I have a lot of files being mirrored, but in this particular case there is no big file involved, and it's only a few files, about 20. > > Note that sometimes it /does/ come back--you just have to wait, > possibly several tens of minutes. This can happen if you have > changed a big (multi-GiB in size) file, and it wants to "reconcile > the changes". But it can appear to be stuck. I thought so, but at least one time I tried letting it go, and it finally exited with a 'lost connection to server' message. > > I have on occasion had to resort to deleting the cache/index files > in ~/.unison/(arb|frp)* and getting it to rebuild them from scratch > on both the client and server. > > Note that version 2.40.61 (not in Debian) fixes quite a few of these > problems, but is still not perfect. But if you have the time to > build it, it's a big improvement. The build scripts are slightly > buggy though--it took me a while to work out and fix! > Mm, I guess I will have to consider this. Deleting the cache would take a while given the number of files involved by now, but anyway, maybe I should try. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110723154542.gb9...@llacolen.ciencias.uchile.cl