Problems after trying nohup rsync

saphix

4/28/23, 8:46 AM

I tried to run some rsync with nohup, which I couldnt get to run properly. I tried to delete the nohup.out file which it created but it seems everything in the directory I was working in is hanging now. I cannot even try ls in the directory anymore... The rsync commands I have tried:

nohup rsync -avP ADRESS:PATH/* .
nohup rsync -avP ADRESS:PATH/* . &
nohup rsync -avP ADRESS:PATH/* . & > /dev/null

All of the process were stopped.

Using top shows me that the processes are in "uninterruptible sleep" state and are most likely waiting for I/O (PID 1398509, 1398676 ).

1400493 hkim      20   0   57060   7296   5844 S   6.9   0.0   1:02.39 ssh
1400494 hkim      20   0  126992   8616   7500 S   3.6   0.0   0:33.90 sss_ssh_knownho
1397038 hkim      20   0   93960   9988   8320 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.08 systemd
1397042 hkim      20   0  343492  10280      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 (sd-pam)
1398509 hkim      20   0   43924   8020   5248 D   0.0   0.0   0:00.01 vim
1398676 hkim      20   0    7316    856    788 D   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 rm
1399127 hkim      20   0  161180   5052   3700 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.19 sshd
1399128 hkim      20   0   24836   5768   3580 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.17 bash
1399453 hkim      20   0  163352   8420   7060 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.03 sshd
1399658 hkim      20   0  163352   8436   7076 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 sshd
1399956 hkim      20   0  161684   6732   4996 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.16 sshd
1399957 hkim      20   0   24836   5732   3552 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.09 bash
1401203 hkim      20   0  161180   5016   3664 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.01 sshd
1401204 hkim      20   0   24704   5568   3504 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.03 bash
1401248 hkim      20   0   88808   7796   6720 T   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 strace
1401250 hkim      20   0    7316    748    684 D   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 rm

I have a suspicion the nohup rsync is still writing somewhere after the hung processes and is holding up the I/O in the directories... Im sorry if this is vague and needs more information, I can add more information if needed. Any help is appreciated, thank you!

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AlexD

4/28/23, 9:36 AM

You have two `rm` processes doing I/O (indicated by state `D`).

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