On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:17:40PM -0400, Warrick FitzGerald wrote: > Is there some way to slow rsync down?
It all depends on what resource rsync is consuming on your system. If it does not have a lot of CPU, you should be able to use "nice" to make rsync use only left-over CPU cycles. Also, if you're using ssh as the remote shell, compressing the transfer takes a bunch of CPU too, so you could switch cyphers to a less-CPU intensive one (such as arcfour or blowfish) and/or nice ssh (or even switch over to using rsh or a daemon connection). If your system does not have a lot of disk I/O, then you might try using the --bwlimit option to make rsync use less network I/O, and thus make it consume disk I/O more slowly (as long as you don't use --checksum). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
