rsync -append "chunk" size

[Marcin Polkowski]

Do I do that on the receiver side or sender side? Receiver is more 
obvious, but I just want to make sure.

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> Wayne Davison <mailto:wayned at samba.org>
> 28 wrzes'nia 2013 19:23
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Marcin Polkowski 
> <marcin at marcinpolkowski.com <mailto:marcin at marcinpolkowski.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm transferring 1.1 Mb files over very poor GSM EDGE connection.
>     My rsync command is:
>
> [... using --append ...]
>
>     File on remote server "grows" in size in steps of 262144 bytes.
>
>
> This is apparently due to the in-place code (which --append uses) not 
> setting any cleanup flags for the transferred files, and thus all the 
> cached data that has accumulated in the file buffer is never flushed. 
>  I'm checking in a change that will improve the cleanup code to 
> support in-place files (which will go out with 3.1.0).
>
> In the meantime, if you want to just tweak your 3.0.7 version, edit 
> the fileio.c file and change the line "wf_writeBufSize = WRITE_SIZE * 
> 8;" to set just WRITE_SIZE (not * 8).
> ..wayne..
>
> Marcin Polkowski <mailto:marcin at marcinpolkowski.com>
> 3 wrzes'nia 2013 10:44
> I'm transferring 1.1 Mb files over very poor GSM EDGE connection. My 
> rsync command is:
>
> rsync --partial --remove-source-files --timeout=120 --append 
> --progress --rsh=ssh -z LOCAL_FILE root at SERVER:REMOTE_PATH
>
> File on remote server "grows" in size in steps of 262144 bytes. That 
> is a lot, because system needs to transfer at least 262144 (before 
> compression) every time connection is established. When I use scp --C 
> chunk size is about 32Kb. Is there a way to change chunk size for 
> rsync? I use rsync 3.0.7.
>
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