On 08/21/2012 09:30 AM, Götz Reinicke wrote: > 564 root 20 0 98.5m 6872 2968 R 99.0 0.2 1:08.10 sshd It looks like ssh is the rate limiting step in your rsync. What cipher are you using for ssh? I use rsync --rsh='/usr/bin/ssh -c arcfour128' ... that helps quite a bit on my hardware, your hardware might do better with another cipher. You should check out https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136713 to learn more about this. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, mk@xxxxxxx http://www.lemo.dk _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos