rsync - Feb 2007 - --bwlimit -z limits filesystem speed, not network speed

My impression when running with --bwlimit in combination with
compression -z is that the speed to the filesystem is limited to the
value given in --bwlimit.

This must be contrary to the intention with --bwlimit.

David

On Fri 16 Feb 2007, David Jonsson wrote:
> My impression when running with --bwlimit in combination with
> compression -z is that the speed to the filesystem is limited to the
> value given in --bwlimit.
> 
> This must be contrary to the intention with --bwlimit.
Can you give the details of whatever gives you that impression?
>From what I've seen in the source code, --bwlimit only concerns itself
with the network traffic, and has nothing to do with file IO.


Paul Slootman

Paul Slootman wrote...
> Can you give the details of whatever gives you that impression?
FWIW I had similar observations in the past but was too lazy to report
it; and now I cannot reproduce it using rsync 2.6.9.

Is there a chance that bwlimit changed its behaviour in the last two
years?

    Christoph
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:59:08PM +0100, Christoph Biedl
wrote:
> Is there a chance that bwlimit changed its behaviour in the last two
> years?
My big improvements for bwlimit went out in 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004), so it
was just a little over 2 years ago.

..wayne..