Luca Berra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:52:29PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > >Ugh... -z may be a very bad idea. If you have a fast connection to the > >mirror (e.g. a local mirror, and I would presume those using rsync have > >local mirrors since not many mirrors provide rsync access and those that > >do usually severally limit the number of clients) then compression will > > usually make things slower. > besides it is not nice on the CPU of the mirrors, sunet.se i.e. asks people > not to set -z > > MOTD: We *don't* suggest use of '-z' option, as most of the files here are > MOTD: already compressed, and running compression is CPU intensive thing > MOTD: anyway. Just *wait*, and the transfer will eventually complete.
Ok, I should add an option for using -z so, as some users experienced increased download speed. Fran�ois.
