Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-07-02 Thread Olivier Lachambre
many clients do not care about multiplying complexity by 2 or 5, even if the speedup rate is only multiplied by 1.1. Olivier ___ Olivier Lachambre 2, rue Roger Courtois 25 200 MONTBELIARD FRANCE e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mail

Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-07-02 Thread Olivier Lachambre
out network traffic, so between 1.5 & 2 times more efficient is just: "extremement excitant". The main goal of rsync is to spare bandwidth utilisation, I guess my definition for efficiency is quite the good one (I know what a very slow link is). I didn't care about CPU, disks IO (a

Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-07-01 Thread Olivier Lachambre
gt;algorithm (see 'Smaller Signatures' in chapter 4). That changes the >calculation of optimal block size quite a bit. I think this is the main reason for such results in my test. Thanks for answering my question. Amicalement, Olivier P.S. Maybe one day all this will be availa

Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-06-30 Thread Olivier Lachambre
ced a certain number of files (10? 100?) we always use the same size which is supposed to be the best one. Sorry I'm too long, hope you'll understand everything, Olivier P.S. I am not a programmer of any kind so don't wait for me to write any line of C (I know I'm a bad boy