On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 20:57 -0500, Rahul Nabar wrote: > Is there a way to speed up rsync by opening more than one daemon in > parallel.
daemon will create a process when a connection is established. So the limit is hardware. > I use rsync --daemon to start rsync. I was wondering if > opening more than one instance is recommended or feasible? I think multi-client can improve performance, but limit is the same as above. > I know that > for services like nfs for example I have had opening many instances > improve performance. What kind of performance you are concerning, network/cpu/ram/disk IO ....? > > I have 4 cores available It seems good :) > so if there are any other parallization modes > I'd be glad to know since I need to backup ~800GB data every day. Rsync can backup only differs. I think you can use this feature. > > -- > Rahul -- Daniel Li -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html