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.
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