rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 31 January 2011 14:21:32 Richard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:28:04PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 31 January 2011 11:39:55 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > > Ane, cann you run "lsof | grep pid-of-rsync" if it hangs (where
> > > pid-of-rsync is the pid of a rsync process of course)? This command
> > > will give you all files rsync tries to attach (at the time you run
> > > lsof). If there are more rsync processes, try grep -E
> > > "(pid1|pid2|pid3)" instead of the simple grep.
> > 
> > I seem to be getting the syntax wrong:
> > 
> > lsof | grep -E (3180|3181|3183)
> > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> 
> not sure if you tried this or took my previous example literally..
> $pid was meant to be replaced by the actual PID of rsync. Did realise
> too late that my example was very confusing.
> 
> Try
>   ps axf|grep rsync
> take the PID from it and do
>   ll /proc/pid-number/fd
> 
No problem - I did realise that.

This command gives me three separate pids, the same three as I listed in the 
command.  Each of those pids lists a whole set of files that it has, 
presumably, compared when compiling the file list for transfer.  They all 
appear to have the same file list.  All of them end with

/home/anne/WebPages /mnt/server_home/anne/

and finally, after everything else.

7250 pts/2    S+     0:00      \_ grep --color=auto rsync

I don't know what this refers to.  I don't see that as a pid in system 
monitor.

Anne
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