Hello, I'm synchronizing fairly large files ( ~400Mb ) over a not-so-reliable internet connection. I've been seeing the rsync operations hang ( strace the sender side shows no activity ), so I started playing with the --timeout option. I'm finding that timeout is completely broken for uploads? Uploads are consistently aborting like so: $ rsync --stats --timeout 300 -a -v [blah blah blah] io timeout after 397 seconds -- exiting t: 1154011230 last_io_in: 1154010833 last_io_out: 1154011170 rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(173) [sender=2.6.8] ( I added the verbose for t / last_io_in / last_io_out ) The timeout code is based on last_io_in and doesn't check last_io_out. Every time this happens for uploads I see last_io_out is still within range .. TTimo