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From: | Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt AT princeton DOT edu> |
Subject: | Re: rsync windows hang |
Date: | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:00:45 -0400 |
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> All though this may not be the case here but rsync over ssh is simply > unusable under cygwin for the most part. I've tried for years to get > it working reliably and its simply not possible I'm afraid. > > It seems related to the very slow ssh transfer issue and I suspect > some low level thing to due with buffering and the way sockets > are dealt with in the cygwin core is at fault. > > There are two options we've used in the past. rsync in daemon mode > which doesn't use ssh and also doesn't seem to be as unstable or > use SFU version rsync which doesn't seem to have the same issues > and also has very good throughput under ssh as well. > > P.S. This is NOT a dig at cygwin as this is not some simple > problem that can be fixed easily its a nasty timing issue thing > by all investigation. Yes it would be nice to see it fixed but > its one part of a very valuable system which work faultlessly > for the most part. I use rsync + ssh every day on files of all sizes and it works fine for me... As for the original post: what command line are you typing? -lewis -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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