Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-13 Thread Ben Escoto
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:28:21 -0700 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The referenced mail message describes the benchmark as: > | The directory backed up or restored had 1 1-byte files > > That isn't a very good benchmark. 10,000 files is not that > many and being 1 byte means that all t

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-13 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 07:46:05PM -0700, Ben Escoto wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:05:09 -0700 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rsync is not an efficient local copy utility. It can be > > used for local copying but local and high-bandwidth network > > speed is sacrificed for low-bandwid

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-13 Thread Ben Escoto
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:05:09 -0700 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rsync is not an efficient local copy utility. It can be > used for local copying but local and high-bandwidth network > speed is sacrificed for low-bandwidth performance and for > data integrity. I've been surprised at how

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:46:42PM -0400, Jim Salter wrote: > > I'm sorry that you find rsync's local performance > > disappointing but that isn't what rsync is really for. > > If you do find specific enhancements that can be made that > > won't adversely affect portability we'd be glad to hear of

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Salter
> I'm sorry that you find rsync's local performance > disappointing but that isn't what rsync is really for. > If you do find specific enhancements that can be made that > won't adversely affect portability we'd be glad to hear of > them. JW - one thing that occurs to me is to wonder if it would b

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:35:01AM -0400, Dave Mangelsdorf (CBIZ Tech) wrote: > > Not sure if this is not the proper channel (forum) for this, but I need some > help. > > We have been using rsync in various ways on various platforms. > > Linux-SGI (IRIX)-MacOSX > > In all cases the actual L

FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread Dave Mangelsdorf (CBIZ Tech)
Not sure if this is not the proper channel (forum) for this, but I need some help. We have been using rsync in various ways on various platforms. Linux-SGI (IRIX)-MacOSX In all cases the actual LOCAL file transfer seems to be limited to 10MB/sec from disk to disk. Always copy whole files. (