I would expect no difference for small file performance between rsync and ssh-rsync. The ssh overhead on a modern system limits data rate to something like 75MB/s, nearly saturating a gigabit link. It seems you have basic filesystem performance issues. More RAM, larger caches, SSD? investigate with iostat on client or server?
ED. > On 2020, Apr 21, at 4:31 AM, R.C. <milan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > What is the expected difference in performance between rsync+shh and rsyncd? > I would use it over a private LAN, so no concerns about security. > Currently rsync+ssh is way too slow for a huge number of very small files > (about 700K email files in an imap server tree), even without --checksum. > > Thank you > > Raf > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/