On Thu 01 Sep 2005, Xuehai Zhang wrote:
If (similar) tasks are run in parallel, then the data of the files being
handled may still be in the buffer cache so that it doesn't need to get
read in from disk again. This will save time...
I agree with you that caching effect might be the
Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:15:55AM -0500, Misha Bergal wrote:
rsync on the server machine makes System process to consume about 90%
of CPU time.
If you are sending over a fast network, using -W (--whole-file) will
save you CPU (and disk I/O). In
Since it sounds like disk I/O is your limiting factor, you may wish to
look into updating multiple systems using a batch file. This requires
all the receiving systems to have identical files in the destination
hierarchy. You would first create a batch file by performing the
synchronization
