I am using rsync 3.0.2 (on both ends) to copy a source tree from Mac OS (Intel) to AIX (Power 5). My command is rsync --rsync-path=/work/default/eschnett/rsync-3.0.2/bin/rsync --rsh ssh --archive --hard-links --sparse --verbose --progress --partial --stats --compress --exclude _darcs --exclude CVS --exclude doxygen --exclude ".#*" --exclude .DS_Store --exclude .git --exclude .svn --exclude "*~" --delete --delete-excluded CONTRIBUTORS COPYRIGHT Makefile arrangements src lib .gitignore AEIArrangements AEIPhysics bbhfactory bin cactus.config carpet carpet-stable carpet-stable-2 carpet-stable-3 kranc parfiles eschnett@zeke.loni.org:/work/default/eschnett/Calpha After checking about 8000 files, I receive the error sending incremental file list rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (794 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at io.c(635) [sender=3.0.2] With two additional --verbose options, the last screen output is recv_generator(arrangements/AEIDevelopment/BbhIData/src/BbhCollabInitialData/t7600/Nid_gyy_SphereC1.dump,8043) arrangements/AEIDevelopment/BbhIData/src/BbhCollabInitialData/t7600/Nid_gyy_SphereC1.dump is uptodate send_files(8043, arrangements/AEIDevelopment/BbhIData/src/BbhCollabInitialData/t7600/Nid_gyy_SphereC1.dump) recv_generator(arrangements/AEIDevelopment/BbhIData/src/BbhCollabInitialData/t7600/Nid_gyy_SphereC10.dump,8044) arrangements/AEIDevelopment/BbhIData/src/BbhCollabInitialData/t7600/Nid_gyy_SphereC10.dump is uptodate send_files(8044, arrangements/AEIDevelopment/BbhIData/src/BbhCollabInitialData/t7600/Nid_gyy_SphereC10.dump) Here the transmission hangs. When I abort with ctrl-C, I receive ^CKilled by signal 2. rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at rsync.c(541) [sender=3.0.2] _exit_cleanup(code=20, file=rsync.c, line=541): about to call exit(255) This is a show-stopper for using rsync 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 on AIX. I have no such problems on other platforms which use Linux operating systems and Intel processors. My current work-around is to fall back to 2.6.2.
AIX systems are known to have issues with the hard-link code, but no-one has assisted with the debuggin as to why yet. If anyone can help out, let me know.
This has been fixed. See bug 5418 for the patch reference.
Sorry, I meant to refer to bug 5541.