rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 19:53:12 Richard wrote:
> that sounds like you have tried to rsync one of the very special files in
> your homedir, /proc /sys or similar. Perhaps you hit some of the sockets
> or named pipes and block something.
> 
Could be something like that, since it seems to stop at the same point every 
time.

> Find out the pid of the hanging rsync, do "ll /proc/$pid/fd" maybe it says
> you what  the culprit is.

Would you like to explain that please?  I don't understand it.  This is what 
happened -

ll /proc/$22374/fd
ls: cannot access /proc/2374/fd: No such file or directory

I did notice that the pid is very high, and it's obviously not recognisable 
for the command.  Something seems to be wrong.

> Or run rsync verbose to see the last files that were accessed.

I know where it stops every time, in that it's a not very big .jpg that's the 
last file to be listed, but I suspect that, like bootup messages, I see the 
last one to complete.  I still need to know what it's trying to do next.

Anne
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