Re: rsync bandwidth usage

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Sturdza
As an example, I transfered 1930420 KBytes with rsync between two 2.8 GHz Intel P4 machines over gigabit ethernet and got this: transfer method:ssh rshnfs rsync wall time in sec 130.01 79.77 176.03 74.92 MBit/sec116 189 86201 Mind you, this is no benchmark as I

Re: rsync bandwidth usage

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Sturdza
> > How do you call rsync? > > rsync -av --delete --perms --acls ... You left out the rest. Specifically, what protocol are you using over the ethernet? Are you using an rsync server, ssh, NFS, SMB, or what? A straight rsync server is by far the fastest, I've found. So you'd do something lik

Re: rsync bandwidth usage

2008-04-22 Thread Joao Ferreira
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:18 +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > At 10:37 22.04.2008 +0100, Joao F > ask rsync to be slower ?!? > > How do you call rsync? rsync -av --delete --perms --acls ... > Do you use zipping? I don't explicitlly ask for it ? What's the default behaviour ? to use zipping or

Re: rsync bandwidth usage

2008-04-22 Thread jp
For situations where it's all new files, using -W would make it a lot more efficient and less CPU intensive. You can ask rsync to be slower with it's built in bandwidth limiting options. On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14:02PM +0100, Joao Ferreira wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:18 +0200, Fabia

Re: rsync bandwidth usage

2008-04-22 Thread Joao Ferreira
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:18 +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > At 10:37 22.04.2008 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I'm experiencing about 20MBit/s on a 100MBit/s ethernet connection when > >rsync'ing a lager number on _new_ files. > > > >I don't have much exeprience with rsync.

Re: rsync bandwidth usage

2008-04-22 Thread Fabian Cenedese
At 10:37 22.04.2008 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: >Hello all, > >I'm experiencing about 20MBit/s on a 100MBit/s ethernet connection when >rsync'ing a lager number on _new_ files. > >I don't have much exeprience with rsync. I'dd just like to know if thi >is an acceptable bw usage and what could