Latency and Rsync Transfers

[Ryan Malayter]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Neal B <nrbwpi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Working a few servers that are transferring data across country with a 75ms
> delay on a GIGE connection.  We can tune the tcp buffers on linux to improve
> the connections using iperf.  Does rsync use the tcp buffers of the OS or
> does it override these settings?

It will ise OS defaults unless you pass --sockopts to rsync.

Like so:
rsync --sockopts=SO_SNDBUF=128000,SO_RCVBUF=128000 <other options>

-- 
RPM