On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:47:09PM -0600, Seann Herdejurgen wrote: > rsync is optimized to conserve network resources, > sometimes at the expense of CPU resources. As long as > CPU's are fast and networks are slow, rsync with > compression does a great job. However, if I run rsync on > a slow box (166MHz Ultra SPARC) over a fast network > (100Mb/s), the compression kills the transfer rate. I > turned compression off and I should be done rsyncing my > files (60GB) overnight.
If your network is faster than CPU and the disk subsystem you will find --whole-file speeds things up even more. The rsync algorithm is great but it does generate more than twice the disk I/O of --whole-file (subject to caching). -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html