Jon,

It was indeed set at 4,  increased it .

Thanks for reporting this issue.

-Connie Sieh
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Jon Peatfield 
wrote:

> Did I miss an announcement of some change or is the rsync server just 
> permanently overloaded now?
> 
> $ rsync -l rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/
> @ERROR: max connections (4) reached - try again later
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (66 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
> 
> I've got errors suggesting that attempts were failing overnight too.
> 
> Is 4 a sensible limit for the number of connections?
> 
>