rsync hangs counting files.

[Sy Ali]

On 5/24/06, Terry Tanski <ttanski-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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?

A gig of real memory on each, and only a few thousand files.  I
haven't added many files since my last sync either.
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