rsync hangs counting files.

[Terry Tanski]

Sy Ali wrote:
> 
> rsync hangs at the "receiving file list" stage.  I am using the
> verbose switch and I can see the number of files it's counted to.
> This number varies each time I retry the rsync.

Sometimes, rsync's counting of the files takes alot of memory. Do you 
have enough memory or swap enabled on both sender and receiver?

Terry

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