Since it sounds like disk I/O is your limiting factor, you may wish to
look into updating multiple systems using a batch file. This requires
all the receiving systems to have identical files in the destination
hierarchy. You would first create a batch file by performing the
synchronization either
Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:15:55AM -0500, Misha Bergal wrote:
>> rsync on the server machine makes System process to consume about 90%
>> of CPU time.
>
> If you are sending over a fast network, using -W (--whole-file) will
> save you CPU (and disk I/O).
On Thu 01 Sep 2005, Xuehai Zhang wrote:
> >
> > If (similar) tasks are run in parallel, then the data of the files being
> > handled may still be in the buffer cache so that it doesn't need to get
> > read in from disk again. This will save time...
>
> I agree with you that caching effect might be
