On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote: > I have done 700k and 800k files transfers (including hardlinks), but indeed > it could take a while to compute the transferlist. Newer rsync versions > bring down the amount of memory needed drastically. That is one of the > reasons I offer a recent rsync in RPMforge. There is almost never a good > reason to use a dated rsync. > I just thought I'd de-lurk and chime in that there are some patches for ssh to allow better performance: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ If you do end up using rsync for something like this via ssh, you might want to look at some of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's patches. The high-performance patches can allow you to see dramatic increases in throughput. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080622/8f3b4c92/attachment-0004.html>