-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello!
I'm using RSync to mirror from a server (gandalf) to a backupserver (dwalin). RSync does just fit my needs for what I want it to do and I would like to thank your for your work on RSync. Nevertheless I do have a problem which actually comes up from time to time. The syncing of each partition is done by rsync calls from cron.daily. This is one of these calls: rsync -a -v -P --delete --numeric-ids --rsh="ssh" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/images/ \ /backup/images &> /var/log/rsync/backup_gandalf_images The other calls are similar and differ just in their pathes. Actually this last call sometimes hangs up. This means RSync does not terminate with error nor does it without error. The RSync process is still 'running' but there is no file transport anymore. Within the logfile it shows up at one last line like this: cytometer/C12883-98/fisher/C12883-98_FEU_0073_0000_063x_MASK.tif 1247804 100% 1.29MB/s 0:00:00 The file and directory within which this happens differs from time to time. Depending on the number of files that need to be transfered (about 300k files on that partition and about 90k files to be synced) I can kill, restart, kill and restart again and again until RSync is finished, but this is not nice :(. While RSync did hang up I got this output from free: dwalin (Debian GNU/Linux, RSync 2.5.6 pv 26): total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127496 123364 4132 0 16772 44104 - -/+ buffers/cache: 62488 65008 Swap: 497972 107600 390372 gandalf (SuSE GNU/Linux, RSync 2.5.6 pv 26): total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256292 251052 5240 0 58360 113760 - -/+ buffers/cache: 78932 177360 Swap: 995988 44560 951428 So both systems have still left swapspace. I've read through the RSync man-pages and FAQ on the net. There it has been suggested to play around with some options like blocking and non-blocking-io and bwlimit. This didn't change anything. I furthermore did leave RSync alone a whole weekend, but no further files have been processed. Finally I did an strace run of RSync with: strace -f -ff -o strace.out rsync -a -v -P --delete --numeric-ids \ --rsh="ssh" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/images/ /backup/images/ \ &> /var/log/rsync/backup_gandalf_images This outputs are sized about 300MB all together and do contain the systemcalls from start up to my final kill of RSync. Within this output the following is repeated again and again at the end: select(8, [7], [4], NULL, {60, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) select(8, [7], [4], NULL, {60, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) I actually do have no idea what causes this Timeout. If it yould be of any value I even can offer the strace output-files as download or add any other information you may find usefull here. Do you have any suggestion what I can do to find the problem? Is there any other internet source I've missed and which I should read to get rid of this problem? Thanks in advance - -- Andre Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Public-Key: http://www.andre-bell.de/public_key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/T02RnuHMhboRh6QRAlhoAJ4t2wD4RnWCcY4MTYYPY1+ZNyEUVwCeLJ1b 7luF+vxxwim0CbFaBl4F9/s= =/qyu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html