Issue with bwlimit after resuming a partial transfer due to a communication break

[Alistair Dsouza]

Thanks Paul and Wayne. The behaviour is clear now.

Regards,
Alistair


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Alistair Dsouza <alistaird at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Literal data: 6,496 bytes
>>
>
> That is how much literal data rsync had to send to finish the file, so it
> is not surprising that it finished quickly.  See also the Total bytes
> received (about 40K), so it would not be surprising to have a 10K/sec
> limited connection finish in 4 seconds (in the example you cited it took
> longer than than, only averaging 5K/sec, presumably due to all the copying
> of basis-file data that went on).
>
> So, in your testing, be sure to not use a file that contains repetitive
> data.  When sending a new file, only the -z option helps rsync to send
> repetitive data with reduced bandwidth.  But when copying over a partial
> basis file, the normal checksum matching will copy local basis-file data for
> both the partial data and for any matching chunks in the unsent part of the
> file that match chunks in the earlier part of the file.
>
> ..wayne..
>
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