Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:12:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: long, large rsync slows down over time ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0607281209110.12027-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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I am moving a large number of files (about 40 GB, comprising almost 3.5 million files) from one machine to another using rsync. I am noticing that the longer this rsync process runs, the slower it seems to go, and the more CPU time it is taking on the destination (FreeBSD 6.1). Is there a reason for this ? Is there some aspect of rsync (or FreeBSD) that just starts to bog down after transferring 1-2 million files? When the job started, load on the destination was between .2 and .8, and now, four days later, it is up to 4.0+ ... and as I say, although I have not measured, throughput does seem to be slowing down. Any thoughts / comments ?
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