Expected Behavior?

[gamename]

Hi Ganael,

I'm starting FPSync like this (notice I'm asking for 8 threads):
/bin/sh /usr/bin/fpsync -O -x .glusterfs -x .root -x .r00t -n 8 -vvv /images_ebs /images

But when I do ps -ef | grep fpsync, I see 24 rsync processes.

Is this expected behavior? What does the -n 8 really signify?

Thanks,
-Tennis

[martymac]

Hello Tennis,

Yes, this is expected as rsync will fork itself several processes. When you use "-n 8", you start 8 rsync master processes in parallel ; then rsync does what is has to do and may fork other children processes.

You can examine parent/children processes' relationship with tools such a pstree (on GNU/Linux) or ps' option "-d" on FreeBSD.

On my system (FreeBSD), it gives the following :

martymac 96211  0.0  0.0 11768  3100  5  S+   12:03   0:00.00   | |-- /bin/sh /tmp/fpsync/work/1596708209-95820/1
martymac 96215  9.7  0.0 15876  4060  5  R+   12:03   0:00.97   | | `-- /usr/local/bin/rsync -lptgoD -v --numeric-ids -r --files-from=/tmp/fpsync/parts/1596708209-95820/part.1 --from0 /usr/src// /var/tmp/src/
martymac 96220  0.1  0.0 13716  3208  5  S+   12:03   0:00.00   | |   `-- /usr/local/bin/rsync -lptgoD -v --numeric-ids -r --files-from=/tmp/fpsync/parts/1596708209-95820/part.1 --from0 /usr/src// /var/tmp/src/
martymac 96581  0.0  0.0 14236  3224  5  S+   12:03   0:00.00   | |     `-- /usr/local/bin/rsync -lptgoD -v --numeric-ids -r --files-from=/tmp/fpsync/parts/1596708209-95820/part.1 --from0 /usr/src// /var/tmp/src/
martymac 96481  0.0  0.0 11768  3100  5  S+   12:03   0:00.00   | |-- /bin/sh /tmp/fpsync/work/1596708209-95820/2
martymac 96483  0.0  0.0 13540  3528  5  R+   12:03   0:00.65   | | `-- /usr/local/bin/rsync -lptgoD -v --numeric-ids -r --files-from=/tmp/fpsync/parts/1596708209-95820/part.2 --from0 /usr/src// /var/tmp/src/
martymac 96484  0.0  0.0 12540  3136  5  S+   12:03   0:00.00   | |   `-- /usr/local/bin/rsync -lptgoD -v --numeric-ids -r --files-from=/tmp/fpsync/parts/1596708209-95820/part.2 --from0 /usr/src// /var/tmp/src/

and we can see that each master rsync has forked 1 or 2 children.

Best regards,

Ganael.

[gamename]

Perfect! Thank you, sir.