rsync windows hang

[Lewis Hyatt]

> 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


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