rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Richard]

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



Richard

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