On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 05:08, Federico Alves <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The limitation is not my hardware. The servers are both Dell R900 with SAS
> disk arrays. Also, from a Windows virtual machine, inside the same server,
> I get around 400 MB speed using FTP transfer, windows to windows. There
> must be a different way to do this from Linux.The files are sparse files,
> and I need to keep them that way, that's why I use rsync.

Well transferring sparse files is going to be slow and it could be
hardware (unless you are somehow testing with windows of copying
sparse files over). rsync is having to see what real bits are there
and what is fluff so it is going to be CPU and disk intensive.





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