rsync - Jan 2005 - [Bug 2209] rsync 2.6.3 intermittently slow to connect

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2209


wayned@samba.org changed:

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------- Additional Comments From wayned@samba.org  2005-01-10 12:52 -------
It sounds to me like an intermittent network problem that is outside the control
of rsync.  How much testing on the 2.4.6 version did you do to know that the
problem did not recur?  It may be that the network was just behaving itself
during that time.

The other thing it can be is the startup time necessary for the sending side to
scan all the files: if the host that is scanning the files is doing a lot of
I/O, it can be slow the first time you run the command, after which the normal
OS caching of the diretory info would cause the next run to occur much more
rapidly.  You can use the --progress option to see if rsync is scanning files.

If it is not either of those possibilities, please provide more info.  Is the
ssh connection already open?  What did rsync last do before the hang?

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------- Additional Comments From webjedi_on_crack@yahoo.com  2005-01-11 15:10
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Created an attachment (id=884)
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rsync 2.6.3 truss


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------- Additional Comments From webjedi_on_crack@yahoo.com  2005-01-11 15:10
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Hi Wayne,

Thanks for fielding this request.

I haven't seen any indicators that the network is at fault (pings, scp, ssh
all
work fine).  Here is a sample output of my rsync session:

m1010sjc1:/tmp$ time /lc/depot/rsync-2.6.3-AO~0/bin/rsync -aWv --rsync-
path="/lc/depot/rsync-2.6.3-AO~0/bin/rsync" --progress --stats --
rsh=/lc/bin/ssh vertex_user_snst_21304.dmp.gz m2249sjc1.cust:/tmp
dpeng@m2249sjc1.cust's password:
building file list ...
1 file to consider
vertex_user_snst_21304.dmp.gz
    3432962 100%    5.16MB/s    0:00:00  (1, 100.0% of 1)

Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 1
Total file size: 3432962 bytes
Total transferred file size: 3432962 bytes
Literal data: 3432962 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 86
Total bytes sent: 3433520
Total bytes received: 40

sent 3433520 bytes  received 40 bytes  67991.29 bytes/sec
total size is 3432962  speedup is 1.00

real    0m49.377s
user    0m13.490s
sys     0m2.601s


I typed in my password as fast as I could after waiting around 30s.

I am also going to attach a truss dump for your reference.


Thanks,
David


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------- Additional Comments From wayned@samba.org  2005-01-11 16:06 -------
If the 30-second delay is happening before the password prompt, it is likely to
be a delay during the ssh connection.  The important thing to check is what is
happening at the point the delay occurs -- is ssh trying to connect to the
remote system?  Is the remote system running slowly?  If you have an extra
window open on each system, you can check the process list to see what's
running
and check what the programs are doing.

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------- Additional Comments From webjedi_on_crack@yahoo.com  2005-01-11 18:30
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Okay, I think I've got it.  ssh-rand-helper which is a child process of ssh 
generates a random number from various commands specified in
"ssh_prng_cmds".
One of these commands was taking a huge amount of time and caused the delay for 
ssh and rsync.  I went ahead and commented out the offending command (which 
was 'last') and rsync ran fine.

Thanks for the help.

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