I am running rsync on win9x (PIII 900, 128MB RAM) between a mapped network drive and a local drive. For small folders on this machine rsync works great, but the folder I am syncronising with has 13GB of data and > 1,000,000 files. Out of about 20 attempts rsync has only succeded once, all other times it just seems to hang. Not much info but any ideas? Thanks Scott
On Tue 12 Oct 2004, Scott Ainslie wrote:> I am running rsync on win9x (PIII 900, 128MB RAM) between a mapped > network drive and a local drive. > > For small folders on this machine rsync works great, but the folder I > am syncronising with has 13GB of data and > 1,000,000 files. Out of > about 20 attempts rsync has only succeded once, all other times it > just seems to hang.Your memory is most probably the bottleneck, with that amount of files. Check swapspace etc... Also, it may appear to be hanging, but actually thrashing the swap. Give it more time. Paul Slootman
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:07:57PM +0200, Scott Ainslie wrote:> I am running rsync on win9x (PIII 900, 128MB RAM) between a mapped > network drive and a local drive.If you can move the sending rsync to the host that has the network drive mounted locally you'll find that the copy is much faster than using a network drive as the source. It will also move 1/3 of the memory used to another machine, which, if your system is swapping as Paul suggests, should make a big difference. Finally, make sure you're using at least rsync 2.6.2 (preferably 2.6.3) because it is much more memory efficient than earlier versions, and it is also faster when run under MS Windows. ..wayne..