That was just too small a test. --bwlimit= causes rsync to sleep for an
appropriate interval after each data block (not tcp packet), in order to
pull the average transfer rate down to the specified limit. Your reported
transfer rate was only a little above 1kbps anyway, as the test was so
small, there wasn't time to even get the send>sleep>send>sleep cycle
going... overhead stretched the time out so much that the 128k transferred
took an insignificant portion of the total runtime. Try a larger test.
maybe a meg or so. averages are meaningless on single instances...
average height of an adult american male is about 6 feet, right? if you
find a man 4 feet tall, that doesn't mean the average is wrong.
Tim Conway
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perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn,
19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970),
".\n" '
"There are some who call me.... Tim?"
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Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
11/19/2001 06:04 PM
To: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS@AMEC
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bandwidth Limits
Classification:
On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 17:45:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...
; Try this commandline:
; rsync -avz -e ssh --bwlimit=64 localfiles.tar.gz
; user@remote:/path/to/file/arch
I did. This is what I get....I created a 128K file..
bash-2.05$ rsync --stats -avz --bwlimit=8 -e ssh blah:~/out .
user@remote's password:
receiving file list ... done
out
Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 1
Total file size: 127976 bytes
Total transferred file size: 127976 bytes
Literal data: 127976 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 57
Total bytes written: 32
Total bytes read: 15325
wrote 32 bytes read 15325 bytes 1228.56 bytes/sec
total size is 127976 speedup is 8.33
bash-2.05$ ls -l out
-rw------- 1 user luser 127976 Nov 19 19:01 out
