performance problem of using parallel rsync to stage data from
1 source to multiple destination
Paul Slootman
paul at debian.org
Fri Sep 2 10:37:42 GMT 2005
On Thu 01 Sep 2005, Xuehai Zhang wrote:
> >
> > If (similar) tasks are run in parallel, then the data of the files being
> > handled may still be in the buffer cache so that it doesn't need to get
> > read in from disk again. This will save time...
>
> I agree with you that caching effect might be the cause. The buffer cache
> you mentioned refers to the cache on the data source, right?
Yes.
Paul Slootman
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