rsync + ssh fail on raid; okay on 2.2.x

Dear folks,

I use rsync to transfer my mail (including this list) from work to home over ppp ussing OpenSSH 2.3.0. I have no problem transfering hundreds of megabytes of my babies' photos from a non-raid partition (going to work), but I get:

nsmail/Inbox
Write failed: Cannot allocate memory
unexpected EOF in read_timeout

about 19 times out of 20 (1 success so far)
Kernel: 2.4.0, no patches
PIII 450MHz, 256MB RAM, Acus P3B-F motherboard (Intel 440BX) Mail going to Raid 1 device
The file Inbox is only 2.9MB
OS = Red Hat 7 with all updates, both home and work. Same with ppp 2.3.x and ppp 2.4.0
Same whether work machine runs 2.2.16 or 2.4.0 kernel.

Any suggestions on where to begin to look for the problem? I really need my email.

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Nick Urbanik, Dept. of Computing and Mathematics
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi)
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This is not the right place to ask (or answer), but anyway:

Make sure you do not use protocol version 2 with openssh 2.3.0, since it is ***very*** broken, and more often than not fails to receive (and transmit?) all data.

Try

	dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=100 | wc

and
ssh machine dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=100 | wc

They should give you the same result. If not, you have the broken ssh.

/Tobias

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