Re: Aw: Re: [PATCH] Reduce memory usage
Rupert Gallagher via rsync <[email protected]>
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-------- Original Message -------- On Oct 2, 2021, 12:36, < [email protected]> wrote: >>In the exchange I argued that proper use of ram as a buffer would have cut down backup time to minutes instead of days. >could you give an example where rsync is slowing things down so much due to ram constraints or inefficient ram use? You find it all in the exchange I already referred to. >please mind that disk bandwith and file copy bandwith is not the same. random i/o and seek time is the culprit. I am glad you did your homework. >why should rsync use ram for buffering data it copies, if the linux kernel / vm subsystem already does this? Because my server is not using linux? -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html