rsync - Jul 2001 - Anti hang comments

Some feedback. I'd been having trouble with rsync hanging or early EOF
timeouts.
Problem occurred on 2 identical receiving machines.
I upgraded from Linux kernel 2.4.2 (RH 7.1) to 2.4.7 on the receiving
machines. Sender machines are standard Linux RH 6.1 and RH 6.2 kernel..
Receiving machines are Duron 900Mhz 256 Mb software-raid1 ext2 2x40Gb.
This improved the situation but still gave problems.
Then I downloaded the latest rsync cvs and compiled on both machines and
it's now working perfectly.
Around 10Gb of data to sync.
I tried many permutations of raid/non-raid, kernel 2.4.2/2.4.7 and rsync
versions over many days and believe that both the kernel upgrade and the
latest rsync cvs were necessary.
John Leach
http://osware.net
Melbourne

> Some feedback. I'd been having trouble with rsync hanging or early EOF
> timeouts.
>...
> versions over many days and believe that both the kernel upgrade and the
> latest rsync cvs were necessary.
nothing hangs in the case below, the job is done, but what produces the 
message "Aborted by user! unexpected EOF in read_timeout" ?
Example of a cron job email:
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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:00:01 +0200
From: root@it97.dyn.dhs.org (Cron Daemon)
To: root@it97.dyn.dhs.org
Subject: Cron <root@it97>  test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && 
/usr/lib/cron/run-crons
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
 
Aborted by user!
unexpected EOF in read_timeout
Willkommen auf dem rsync-Server %SERVER
 
receiving file list ... done
ithum/yakumo/.kde/share/apps/kmail/
ithum/yakumo/.kde/share/config/
ithum/yakumo/.kde/share/apps/kmail/ithum:@192.168.111.113:110
ithum/yakumo/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc
ithum/yakumo/.netscape/cache/index.db
ithum/yakumo/.netscape/history.dat
ithum/yakumo/.kde/share/apps/kmail/
ithum/yakumo/.kde/share/config/
ithum/yakumo/.netscape/
ithum/yakumo/.netscape/cache/
wrote 4564 bytes  read 172792 bytes  6692.68 bytes/sec
total size is 178910233  speedup is 1008.76
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 Irmund  Thum
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