Wayne Davison wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:22:23AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Is there any likelihood of changing the rsync code to use threads > > instead of processes? > > I just thought about this a bit more, and it didn't seem as large a task > as I had originally assumed it would be. I also remembered that I'm > going to need something like this (*) to effect my desired changes of > decreasing memory use and improving speed, so I've coded up a first-cut > version: > > http://opencoder.net/threaded-receiver.diff > > This applies to the very latest CVS source (which is also available in a > just-updated "nightly" tar file). The code does not attempt to discern > what kind of threading is available, so that will probably need to be > improved for systems that don't use pthreads.h. If anyone tries this > out, please let me know how it goes and any problems you run into.
Thank you! I don't know if I'll try it now, as I'm working on an alternate solution to our project which I need to be confident will work, but if I do I'll let you know how it went. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html