rsync was never ment for compying files and is no match to fast copy programs especially when you have large file list and when you are not using compresion (or when you are low on mem) there is actually no reason to use it as copy program. piping tar and gz is much faster
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to use rsync to synchronize several gigabytes of data between > Windows XP and Linux, on 100mbps LAN. My first try was to run rsync > server on Linux, and use rsync on XP to pull the data. However the > performance is REALLY bad... When Isimply copy the file in explorer, > using samba on Linux, I get 10x speed increase. I thought it's a problem > of rsync protocol, but when I mount smbfs share from XP on Linux, and > run rsync in local mode, it performs adequately. > > So, the question is, why rsync is so slow in client/server mode, and is > there anything I can do about it? There are workarounds, of course, but > I don't want to introduce the additional overhead of smb or any other > additional protocol for that matter (like ssh, etc) > > Thanks in advance, > Haim Gelfenbeyn. > > > ================================To unsubscribe, send mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
