Re: Rsync on servers
otto.wyss@bluewin.ch (Otto Wyss) writes:
> Is this load really a problem? Doesn't a ftp download need about about
> the same amount of load on the server as the rsync? Doesn't an rsync
> download even need less if just halve of the download is actually
> transferred?
FTP just reads bytes off disk and spews them to the network. This
takes little CPU, and the zero-copy networking people are working at
getting rid of most of that.
Rsync is much more complex, because of the contortions it goes through
to minimize bandwidth used. Take a look at
http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/tech_report/ for details.
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