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...large (sometimes a few hundred megs in size or larger), and am finding that just the operation of the checksumming one such file on the sender is taking tens of minutes. The systems in question have processors on the order of a pentium 166, and the tests that I did the other day syncing a single ~500meg file was between 15 and 20 minutes just for the checksum calculation. When these systems are potentially battery powered, the cost of keeping the system up for long periods at full processor utilization is very expensive in power terms. I couldn't find any such option, and I was trying to com...

...it verifying that the index file is up to date by re-reading some or all of the many files in cur/? If so, could it not get the info it needs by simply doing the equivalent of a ls, which would take considerably less time? The disk cache is only filled up an additional 30meg vs an additional 500meg from connection 1, so it's certainly not reading as much data. (also makes me wonder why the initial scan/index build could not use this lesser time consuming function if thats what it's doing). Additional information: Running strace on the initial indexing looks like this... ----------...