On 11/12/2013 04:13:01 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 11/12/2013 03:50:20 PM, Wayne Davison wrote > > > Yes, the receiver sends all the checksums that it generates at once > > > For really big files it would be interesting to amend this rule to > > one > > where the sending side waits only long enough for a certain number > of > > checksums to arrive before it begins its work (and perhaps pauses > if > > it > > gets too far ahead of the arriving checksums). > > Based on the behavior I see when using rsync, without > really knowing what's going on, it seems that the > sending side first does a lot of disk access, > then the receiving side does, and then > the sync begins over the network. It would > save a lot of wall-clock time if the sending > and receiving side could both be hitting > the disk at once. At least in my use case, > with whatever version of rsync I happen to be > using.
Note that I don't see this per-file, but per-filesystem/ rsync command. Karl <[email protected]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- 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
