Re: bwlimit on rsync locally

2008-03-31 Thread Reeve Yang
Thanks John. I looked into this patch but it doesn't resolve my problem, and we have have posix FADV. I found a simple solution. Just open the file on receiver to be write direct to disk avoid file buffer/cache. Of course the performance sucks but it's what I need. The output block rate cannot be

Re: bwlimit on rsync locally

2008-03-30 Thread John Van Essen
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Reeve Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway to make rsync use direct I/O bypassing FS buffer? I'm not an expert on that by any means, but AFAIK, rsync supports that only via this patch: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/drop-cache.diff (You'll have to co

Re: bwlimit on rsync locally

2008-03-28 Thread Reeve Yang
Is there anyway to make rsync use direct I/O bypassing FS buffer? On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John Van Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Reeve Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does "bwlimit" option really work on rsync locally? > > Yes, it does. > > > > rsync with

Re: bwlimit on rsync locally

2008-03-27 Thread John Van Essen
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Reeve Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does "bwlimit" option really work on rsync locally? Yes, it does. > rsync without --bwlimit: >> iostat; rsync -a -r --stats swapfile swapfile.rsync; iostat > sent 2147745923 bytes received 42 bytes 23472633.50 bytes/sec > ry

Re: --bwlimit -z limits filesystem speed, not network speed

2007-02-17 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:59:08PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Is there a chance that bwlimit changed its behaviour in the last two > years? My big improvements for bwlimit went out in 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004), so it was just a little over 2 years ago. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change option

Re: --bwlimit -z limits filesystem speed, not network speed

2007-02-17 Thread Christoph Biedl
Paul Slootman wrote... > Can you give the details of whatever gives you that impression? FWIW I had similar observations in the past but was too lazy to report it; and now I cannot reproduce it using rsync 2.6.9. Is there a chance that bwlimit changed its behaviour in the last two years? Ch

Re: --bwlimit -z limits filesystem speed, not network speed

2007-02-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 16 Feb 2007, David Jonsson wrote: > My impression when running with --bwlimit in combination with > compression -z is that the speed to the filesystem is limited to the > value given in --bwlimit. > > This must be contrary to the intention with --bwlimit. Can you give the details of whate

Re: --bwlimit doesn't work for daemon mode

2005-01-16 Thread uwe
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:19:54AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > First, thanks for the patch -- they are always appreciated! However, > your patch is identical to the one suggested in this message: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg11850.html i only searched bugzilla. Oh

Re: --bwlimit doesn't work for daemon mode

2005-01-13 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:12:12AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some time after 2.6.0 the --bwlimit code was enhanced, but the code now > doesn't work anymore when you set the bandwidth limit for the daemon First, thanks for the patch -- they are always appreciated! However, your patch is id

Re: bwlimit=

2004-05-26 Thread Jim Kleckner
Wallace Matthews wrote: Wayne replied to my original note which said that in a special situation that I was using to probe rsync to build a behavioral model that bwlimit= resulted in bimodal behavior around a 4000 kbyte/sec value. [snip] bwlimit is not main line functionality. It is useful for doin

re: bwlimit=

2004-05-26 Thread Wallace Matthews
Wayne replied to my original note which said that in a special situation that I was using to probe rsync to build a behavioral model that bwlimit= resulted in bimodal behavior around a 4000 kbyte/sec value. He responded with a patch that I have tested in a limited way. I have a push scenario fr

Re: --bwlimit not working right

2003-10-20 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:23:27AM -0500, John Van Essen wrote: > On 17 Oct 2003, Rene Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > >  > > I cant get the bwlimit option working right. > > If i set this option over 400 kbyte per sec i still only get 400kbyte > > per sec, whether wich value i

Re: --bwlimit not working right

2003-10-20 Thread Rene Schumann
Hello! Thanxs for you explicitely explanation. Am Fre, 2003-10-17 um 17.23 schrieb John Van Essen: > On 17 Oct 2003, Rene Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I cant get the bwlimit option working right. > > If i set this option over 400 kbyte per sec i still only get 400kb

Re: --bwlimit not working right

2003-10-17 Thread John Van Essen
On 17 Oct 2003, Rene Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! >  > I cant get the bwlimit option working right. > If i set this option over 400 kbyte per sec i still only get 400kbyte > per sec, whether wich value i set. > I try this option with a 100MB big file. > I use a debian stable System

RE: --bwlimit not working right

2003-10-17 Thread Max Kipness
> I cant get the bwlimit option working right. > If i set this option over 400 kbyte per sec i still only get > 400kbyte per sec, whether wich value i set. I try this option > with a 100MB big file. I use a debian stable System with > rsync version 2.5.6cvs protocol version 26. Can someone tell

Re: --bwlimit server-side (in rsyncd.conf)?

2002-04-26 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:05:56PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Is there any plan to do it? > Is it maybe already in and just not documented? It's not currently there, and there's no plan to do it. I expect a clean patch to implement it would be accepted. - Dave Dykstra -- To unsubscribe or