Re: rsync as a deliberately slow copy?

2010-09-30 Thread Mac User FR
Le 29 sept. 10 à 22:35, Henri Shustak a écrit : I'm looking for a way to deliberately copy a large directory tree of files somewhat slowly, rather than as fast as the hardware will allow. Just do it to localhost - that way it's still a network connection, and you can use --bwlimit. Also,

Re: rsync as a deliberately slow copy?

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 30 Sep 2010, Henri Shustak wrote: Yes SSH (depending upon the system) may be resource intensive. As such, the suggestion of using nice is a really good suggestion! Also, if running on linux, investigate ionice. This, given CFQ disk scheduling (the default in recent kernels, I believe)

Re: rsync as a deliberately slow copy?

2010-09-29 Thread Jason Haar
On 09/27/2010 06:52 PM, Albert Lunde wrote: I'm looking for a way to deliberately copy a large directory tree of files somewhat slowly, rather than as fast as the hardware will allow. Just do it to localhost - that way it's still a network connection, and you can use --bwlimit. Also, you

Re: rsync as a deliberately slow copy?

2010-09-29 Thread Henri Shustak
I'm looking for a way to deliberately copy a large directory tree of files somewhat slowly, rather than as fast as the hardware will allow. Just do it to localhost - that way it's still a network connection, and you can use --bwlimit. Also, you could try nice to lower the priority rsync

rsync as a deliberately slow copy?

2010-09-27 Thread Albert Lunde
I'm looking for a way to deliberately copy a large directory tree of files somewhat slowly, rather than as fast as the hardware will allow. The intent is to avoid killing the hardware, especially as I copy multi-gigabyte disk image files. If I copy over the network, say via ssh, I can use