[CentOS] How to speed up Rsync transfers

Sudev Barar sbarar at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 04:47:36 UTC 2008


On 23/02/2008, centos at 911networks.com <centos at 911networks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:01:25 -0500
>  "William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
>  > > > I just ran a test from one local box the another on a
>  > > > 100Mbit link and the fastest transfer OI got was
>  > > > 10MBytes/second but most were between 1MBytes/second and
>  > > > 4MBytes/second.
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > > I could be wrong (it happens), but the best performance you
>  > > are likely to get from a 100 Mbit/s link would be right around
>  > > 10 MByte/s.

That is where the higer end network cards show why they are higer end
;-) On a rtl8139 I could get max 8mbps but on the same network with
3com card I could get 50mpbs!

Not very much a test matrix but eye opener all the same.

-- 
Regards,
Sudev Barar

Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there.



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