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? > >