On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:35:17PM -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 14:51, jw schultz wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:01:15PM -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > > > Hi everyone. Has anyone experienced rsync 2.6.0 causing huge amounts of > > > system load? Especially on Linux 2.4? > > <snip> > > > There aren't too many things that would account for this. > > The only one i can think of is an exclude pattern that > > causes pathalogical behavior with the new pattern matching > > code. 2.6.0 also defaults to ssh and if you have ssh doing > > compression by default that could affect it. > > You don't show your command-line so nothing else comes to > > mind. > > > > rsync -Wa --exclude=*tmp* --exclude=SYSLOCKS* --delete --delete-after /localsource > $box::dest/dir > > That looks like pretty normal exclude stuff to me. I'm copying the > entire dataset over to a throw-away box to test the idea, since I would > imagine part of the problem would be the file list itself. That will > take me a while though.
Very normal. I can't think of any changes in rsync that would make that much adverse difference. The only thing left is coincidence: something else pushing you over the edge while rsync was stressing the system. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html