How to speed up rsync when haveing lots of files

[ml at bortal.de]

# rsync --version
rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
              batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, ACLs,
              64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums


Michael Gardner wrote:
> ml at bortal.de wrote:
>   
>> unfortunatelly rsync is beeing REALLY slow and produces a high load when
>> we try to sync lots of files (>250 000 small files).
>>     
>
> What version of rsync are you using?
>
>