does rsync work in lockstep? parallel could improve high latency performance

[Carlos Carvalho]

travis+ml-rsync at subspacefield.org (travis+ml-rsync at subspacefield.org) wrote on 19 August 2010 12:50:
 >Oh, and if it buffers requests sent to its STDIN, that's fine.
 >
 >To actually complete requests in parallel, you'd need a multithread or
 >multiprocess app, and that's complicated.
 >
 >The proper term for what I'm suggesting is probably "pipelining".

Yes, and rsync does it. That's why it runs two processes (generator
and receiver) in the destination.