"Stalled" on large file copy

nuro305 · 03-26-2007, 12:36 PM

I keep getting a "Stalled" message on large file copies over the network. It's usually dead or disconnected after that...

I'm running SLED 10 & Gnome and have tried the Gnome file manager as well as KDE's Konqueror; same deal.....

Other people on the corporate network (Mac & Win)don't report similar problems. I am using SSH to map the drive then trying to copy. I have even turned off the Novell firewall, to no avail.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. I have a 6gig VM file I need to get backed up !

Thanks.

Manana · 03-29-2007, 03:05 AM

I didnt really understand how you where trying to copy the file, but if your trying to copy the file to a smbshare thats your problem, smb as default has a limitation of 2gb per file.

I think its possible to work around this limitation but im not sure how, you can probably google it.

nuro305 · 03-29-2007, 03:45 PM

Thanks for the answer, sorry I wasn't clearer.

That answers part of my question. In one case it was to an external USB drive that was FAT32 so I assume that was mounted Via Samba, so that answers that.

The other case was at my office over the LAN onto a Fedore Core 4 fileserver. Any thoughts why that one would die ?

Thanks Mucho.

Manana · 03-30-2007, 01:32 AM

Ok the first case you mention your sausaged times 2

Apart from the samba limitation, fat32 has a filesizelimitation of 4 gb.

In the other case you still dont say what protocol you use to transfer the file, samba/ftp/nfs/http ?
You say its working on mac/win? are you copying same sized files the same way and its working from mac/win?

nuro305 · 03-30-2007, 11:28 AM

Thanks for the reply, but watch your language, your gonna get your account closed.

For the second transfer at the office, I'm using SSH Via the KDE Konquorer GUI or Gnome via Nautilis.

I don't even get up to a gig before I'm timing out (Stalled) Any ideas for my Sys-Admin to look into?

Thanks.

Manana · 04-02-2007, 01:40 AM

Oh right, thanks for the heads up and thank you acid_kewpie for making me a better person(by edtiting my post)

So essentially its transfered via ssh, i dont have much experience with that except some transfers via sftp, using that i could transfer large files with no problem. So maybe you could try that, its not a solution but it may be a way to work around your problem.

Maybe someone else is aware of som limitations in the way your trying to transfer the files?

eXor · 03-24-2008, 01:18 PM

I have the same problem.

Can't transferee files bigger den 45MB or they get stalled.

Tried with ftp, scp and just normal cp to an usb drive. Whithout luck.

Anybody know how to fix this? Runing debian sarge.

nuro305 · 03-28-2008, 10:54 AM

Never figured this out.........

I just use a USB drive to backup.