I had the same problem for years on SuSE (4.3 till 9.2), and it had become triple as worse after I had migrated all hosts from SuSE to Sarge.
Today I installed rsync-2.6.6-1 from the testing branch (fortunately, no other testing packets were needed), and the problem occurs far less often, it almost vanished. I also get the impression that - Mailfolders frequently opened by POP/IMAP daemons or other rsync's make the most problems, and - pulling works a bit more reliable than pushing. All my machines are AMD K7 running Debian Sarge 3.1 with upgrades and Kernel 2.6.8-2-k7. The "master" stands in a hosting center and has a 100 mbit connection. The 3 backup-targets have different connections, - 6144/512 kbit cable, - 2320 kbit fullduplex SDSL, and - 10 mbit LAN with a almost-broken ethernet card, effectively ~ 1 mbit I had the same expierences on all these connections. I use rsync over ssh with rsync-compression and ssh-compression enabled (unfortunately ssh has no --do-not-compress option, and I do not want to disalbe ssh's compression in ssh_config, due to heavy ssh usage). Avoiding rsync's compression did not help at earliers tests. Kind regards, Christoph Lechleitner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
