On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:27:05AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> I wonder whether rsync is a bit more enterprise strength though:
> * Unison's rsync-based file transfer mechanism has trouble with very
> large files. For example, a 500Mb file will run the OCaml system out
> of memory on some configurations.
I'm afraid rsync is not a lot better. Files larger than 1GB give rsync
real trouble, and performance ends up being pretty bad. It seems this
is caused by a few issues, one of which is hash collisions during the
comparison stage of the rsync... this probably won't be fixed until the
next major version of rsync (or superlifter or whatever it's currently
called).
Cheers,
-mjg
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