Hi, I use rsync (2.4.6) to mirror some directories from two servers to an another server.
The mirroring server is RedHat 6.2 with 2.2.15 kernel. The mirrored servers are: RedHat 6.2 with 2.2.14 kernel / RedHat 6.1 with 2.2.14 (smp). All servers are connected to the same switch and the network is 100Mbit/s. All servers have 3Com 905 nics. With the first mirrored server speed is okay, but the with the second one its really slow. On average the speed is somewhere below 100kbit/s. -W doesn't help with the speed at all, quite the opposite. Also FTP from/to this machine is slow. However samba shares are as fast as they are on any other server. The file amount on this second server doesn't seem to affect the speed. I tested it with just three files totaling about 2.5MB and it took longer than wanted to wait. Currently I mount the mirrored directories from the second mirrored server with smbfs and use rsync from the mounted directories. So this isn't a major issue to me. I use the following options with rsync. directly over network: rsync -auvz from the mounted smb shares: rsync -av -W Any ideas why there is such a huge difference on the two methods? --petri--
