rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 01/31/2011 12:13 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.


That was the grep command you just ran. Run this if you don't want to 
see it.


ps axf|grep rsync|grep -v grep



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