Re: rsync hang - strace output - any ideas?

[Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>]

Max Bowsher wrote:

> I was running the rsync testsuite, and an rsync process hung.
> I did "strace -p <pid>", and got 1 line of trace:
>    4       4 [sig] rsync 2540 wait_sig: looping
>
> Does this mean anything to any Cygwin gurus?
What release are you using exactly?
In 2.5.5-2 I added a small patch (don't remember the author, see the 
included README) that adds a sleepms(30) to try to avoid a (possible?) 
bug in signaling between parent and child in Cygwin.
Some heavy user say that also with that sleepms(30) they sometime hang 
and that sleepms(100) "relsolved" that better, but this degrades 
performances.

The imminent 2.5.6 adds a cache in the network stream that shuold help 
and some other fixes (not by me).

For more infos:
http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/

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