rsync - Dec 2006 - multiplexing overflow

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:16:19PM +0300, ????? ???????
wrote:
>/ multiplexing overflow 101:7104843 [receiver]
/
This indicates that the protocol got corrupted somehow because that is
saying that the receiver got a MSG_DELETED message with a 7104843-byte
buffer attached (which rsync is telling you is too big), but you're not
even deleting files.  What version of rsync are you using?

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Hi Wayne,
i encountered this one as well with a rsync 2.6.4 and 2.6.6 pair. In my case 
i got it because a run-a-way script produced a very deep folder structure with
a small file in all these folders, like:


"/local/transfer/heleen/tmp.1526964/tmp.1526964/tmp.1526964/tmp.1526964/...(very_deep).../tmp.1526964/tmp.1526964/MR16511"

hope this helps


  vincent

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:22:01PM +0100, Vincent Kersten
wrote:
> i encountered this one as well with a rsync 2.6.4 and 2.6.6 pair. In
> my case i got it because a run-a-way script produced a very deep
> folder structure with a small file in all these folders, like:
In which case it's a valid error -- the filename overflowed the buffer
(the prior error was only a protocol corruption due to the impossible
hugeness of the message length it mentioned).  Newer rsync versions
have more headroom in the message buffers, so upgrading the 2.6.4
version may allow the transfer to complete without error (but it
may not be enough if the dirs are way too deep).

..wayne..