rsync on F11 on XO-1 is giving me trouble

[Paul Fox]

mikus wrote:
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 > 
 > I have a "permanent" SD card in each of my XOs, and use 'rsync' to 
 > keep the contents of these SD cards synchronized between systems. 
 > Lately I've been encountering a lot of trouble with using 'rsync' 
 > between F11-on-XO systems.  Typically, the data transfer stalls (and 
 > sometimes leaves the receiving-end SD card corrupted).

since i know you use ethernet quite a bit, is this with a wired
or a wireless connection (or both)?

paul

 > 
 > I'm not sure which end of the rsync data transfer is at fault.  The 
 > daemon (sending) end is left high and dry, but at least in that 
 > machine I can continue (and 'kill -2' the daemon, if need be).  The 
 > machine at the receiving end typically becomes unresponsive (often 
 > the only thing I can do is to power off).  My guess is that the 
 > receiving end may be running out of memory (though I *do* have a 
 > swap partition defined).
 > 
 > I'm not writing a bug report, because I cannot deliberately 
 > reproduce this (it just happens, sooner or later).  I'm seeing this 
 > both with recent rawhide-xo builds and with recent SoaS builds.
 > 
 > mikus
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org