My Rsync Mirror stops accepting connections after 12+ hours

jhboricua · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 113

I'm running a gentoo rsync mirror at rsync://rsync.jhboricua.org/gentoo-portage/

I'm running into some odd behavior. After more than 12 hours have passed, the server stops accepting connections. It keeps saying max connections reached, but there is no traffic going out and no cpu time being used by the rsync process. Killing the process and restarting doesn't help, it keeps saying max connections reached.

BUT, if I kill the rsync process and THEN delete the rsync.lock file on /var/run , I can restart the daemon and it starts accepting connections and passing traffic again. I don't believe is a hardware issue because I'm running a mail server on the same box and I have no trouble sending and receiving mail. Any pointers?

mikulus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 77

I am not sure what is causing your problem, but as a work-around you can create a script like this one and put it in you crontab to run, let's say, every 10 hours:

klieber · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 1:53 pm Post subject:

What are your max connections set to and what is the timeout value in your conf file?

Also, any relevant messages in your logs?

--kurt
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