Re: Strange rsync performance problem

2001-12-18 Thread Ely Levy
rsync was never ment for compying files and is no match to fast copy programs especially when you have large file list and when you are not using compresion (or when you are low on mem) there is actually no reason to use it as copy program. piping tar and gz is much faster Ely Levy System group H

Strange rsync performance problem

2001-12-18 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, I'm trying to use rsync to synchronize several gigabytes of data between Windows XP and Linux, on 100mbps LAN. My first try was to run rsync server on Linux, and use rsync on XP to pull the data. However the performance is REALLY bad... When I simply copy the file in explorer, using samba o