On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:14:53AM +0100, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> On 01.12.2015 19:17, Chris Green wrote:
> >How quickly would one expect a remote client to see a change done by
> >another remote client?  I know this is a bit of a 'piece of string'
> >question but some sort of idea would be useful.
> >
> >I'm adding a very small (few hundred bytes, maybe sometimes a couple
> >of kilobytes) file from a client on ADSL to an internet server and
> >want to know approximately how quickly I would be likely to see it on
> >another ADSL connected client.
> 
> If you add a file to synced directory, the client is notified by a kernel
> filesystem watcher and starts to process the new file two seconds later.
> Depending on the size of your local repository, the upload will start little
> later.
> 
> The second client checks the server for changes regularly every 30 seconds.
> That means that it becomes aware of the change within that timespan and will
> start downloading, again, after processing the repos.
> 
> >
> >Would it be a fraction of a second, several seconds, or what?
> So "several seconds" sounds like a good description.
> 
An excellent explanation of the process, thank you, and it tells me
exactly what I needed to know.

-- 
Chris Green
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