[CentOS] network copy performance is poor (rsync) - debugging suggestions?

Eero Volotinen
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:13:00 -0000

2015-01-23 11:44 GMT+02:00 G?tz Reinicke - IT Koordinator <
goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I do have two centos 6.6 servers. With a "performance optimized"
rsync I
> get an speed of 15 - 20 MB/s
>
> The options I use are:
>
> rsync -aHAXxv --numeric-ids --progress -e "ssh -T -c arcfour -o
> Compression=no -x"
>
> If I copy files by smb to/from the servers I do get 60 - 80 MB/s, a dd
> (r/w) on the storages attached gives 90 MB/s on the 1Gbit ISCSI (Source
> Server) and up to 600MB/s on the 10Gbit ISCSI (Destination Server) storage.
>
> Both servers have plenty of memory and cpu usage looks low.
>
> Currently we dont use jumbo frames. Network over all usage is moderate
> to low. There are no special sysctl tweeks yet in use.
>
> As mentioned, I'm confused that even with SMB I do get 3 to 4 times
> better performance.
>
> Any hint and suggestion to track that problem down is welcome!
>

Problem is ssh, do not use it or apply hpnssh-patches:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpnssh/ to improve network performance

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Eero