Wallace Matthews wrote:
Wayne replied to my original note which said that in a special
situation that I was using to probe rsync to build a behavioral model
that bwlimit= resulted in bimodal behavior around a 4000 kbyte/sec
value.
[snip]
bwlimit is not main line functionality. It is useful for doing things
like I am doing, but how much effort should we put into it?? When
rsync is doing what it was designed to do, we need it to run as fast
as the network will allow it to run?? Or, is there value in
throttling it during normal operation? How accurate does the throttle
have to be?
One nice use for rsync is off-site disaster
backups which one might run on a "trickle" basis.
For a variety of users, having something built into
rsync that works "on the average" is good enough and
avoids the complexity of installing a separate rate
limiter.
It sounds like Wayne's patch would be an improvement
to the rsync bwlimit feature.
Jim
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