On Thu 30 Sep 2010, Henri Shustak wrote: > Yes SSH (depending upon the system) may be resource intensive. As such, the > suggestion of using nice is a really good suggestion!
Also, if running on linux, investigate ionice. This, given CFQ disk scheduling (the default in recent kernels, I believe) will cause rsync to play nice with IO resources, whereas "nice" handles CPU load. rsync is often much more IO intensive than CPU bound. I often run rsync with 'ionice -c3 rsync ....' Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
