How to speed up rsync when haveing lots of files

[Ryan Malayter]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Boniforti Flavio <flavio at piramide.ch> wrote:
> Is there any way to know *in advance* if using or not using "-z" could
> be the better solution?

I don't think so. You need to run your tasks on your own hardware and
network to see where the bottlenecks are.

If the task is CPU-bound, turn off or lower compression (-z1) and see
if that improves the total wall-clock transfer time.

If the task is network bound, try turning on compression, or tweaking
--sockopts to increase your TCP send and receive windows on both ends
of the connection.

If the taks is disk-bound, try using --inplace, -W,  or any other
options which prevent extra file reads and writes.


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RPM