Rob Bosch had similar performance problems on Windows and traced them
to highly fragmented files created by rsync. I wrote a
quick-and-dirty patch to make rsync advise Windows of the eventual
file size in advance, allowing Windows to set aside a contiguous
region on disk; Rob found that it improv
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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:49 AM
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Subject: cygwin rsync performance and bandwidth between two w2003 servers
I have two Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server with 2x 3,0 GHz P4 and 4
GB RAM.
On each server rsync runs as cygwin daemon (rsync version 2.6.
I have two Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server with 2x 3,0 GHz P4 and 4
GB RAM.
On each server rsync runs as cygwin daemon (rsync version 2.6.6;
protocol version 29).
The two servers are connected through a 2 MBit VPN link.
When I sync a single large file or a whole directory, rsync only uses
