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Hi, I'm using rsync to backup a Linux Mandrake 10.1 (kernel 2.6.10) ext3 filesystem (+- 5GB of content, lots of little files) to a CIFS filesystem mounted with samba 3.0.10. The exact invocation of rsync is: /usr/local/bin/rsync -v -a --copy-links --delete /var/www /mnt/backup/backup_www Using the system provided rsync 2.6.3 and a self-compiled 2.6.5 this process runs for a while and then simply hangs. What's even worse, when I try to kill the job, the process becomes owned by pid 1, can't be killed anymore and thus the memory it holds doesn't get released anymore (for...