Re: rsync trouble
Swoop wrote:
>
> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 20:33:56 +0200, Swoop wrote:
> > > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked
> > > very well, but suddenly this error appears:
> > >
> > > Resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> > > Does anyone have a clue why this is happing ?
> >
> > Your system is running out of some of its resources (e.g. memory,
> > processes/threads). You could try running "strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log" on
> > the rsync command and studying the log file this generates.
>
> I can'f find out which resources it run's out of. Here is something from
> the
> log file, but it aren't telling me much:
>
> avalon:~# strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log rsync > rsync.txt
> Process 5362 attached
> Process 5361 suspended
> .
> .
> .
> Process 5392 attached
> Process 5391 suspended
> sys_fork: tcb table full
> /usr/local/bin/rsync: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
looks to me like it cannot spawn anymore processes. if you can run 'top'
in another window/terminal while you run this to see how many processes
are going on the machine. for reference a typical machine will have
anywhere from 50-80 processes.
nate
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