On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:55:48PM +1000, Vianney Lecroart wrote:
> hello,
> 2 things:
> first it s strange but when I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have an
> error message that told me that the message can't be deliver but you had it
> because you answer me :)
One recipient of the rsync mailing list is returning errors to those who
post and has been for a while; hopefully Andrew Tridgell will remove that
user soon (if he hasn't since you posted).
> second, i would like to know, I have 3000 files, 100MO in total and I tried
> to get the files on a 100MO/s lan. I took around 5mn to take all. I tried to
> update a second time but no change on the remote and locale files so rsync
> have "nothing" to update but it took 4mn. It s clear that it systematically
> create signature and don t check date stamp, checksum or file size and it s
> sad because it s quite long to wait 4mn for nothing. is it normal and is
> there a solution to speed up the process?
> thank you for your help, anyway, rsync is very very cool!
> to be honest, I ask that because we are planning to use rsync for the
> patching system on the massively multi player online game. but 4mn each game
> launch is quite long :)
5 minutes for 3000 files seems very long. You aren't by any chance nfs-
mounting those files from the sender or receiver are you? Rsync is
optimized for low-bandwidth connections. It would also be a problem if you
aren't using "-a" or "-t" to preserve timestamps since rsync skips files
whose timestamps match. Another problem people run into is mounting MSDOS
filesystems which don't have the same timestamp granularity as unix
filesystems.
- Dave Dykstra
