Are you using an ssh tunnel for your transfer? If so, have a look to the HPN-SSH patches to dramatically improve OpenSSH performance:
http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ Ciao, Ste. Dan Carl wrote: > Is there a way to speed up rsync transfers? > I tested the bandwidth with iperf (recommended to me in an earlier post & > worked well)its as advertised by my ISP's around 740KB/sec. > When I manually run my rsync script with the --progress switch the > transfers are around 100KB/sec. > I googled this and the only thing I found had to do with the TCP window > which I understand to be the limiting factor. But if this is true how can > I ftp stuff at 300KB/sec? (someone please enlighten me) > > I'm backing up jpg files and some days they add 5+GB of images. > My goal was to backup the images nightly, but at the 100KB/sec rate that's > not possible. > Dan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
