On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:09:19PM -0700, David Rees wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jon Nelson<jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When I say "bad performance" I mean writes that vary down to 100KB/s > > or less, as reported by rsync. The "average" end-to-end speed for > > writing large (500MB to 5GB) files hovers around 3-4MB/s. This is over > > 100 MBit. > > That doesn't sound too unexpected. rsync does a lot of reading and > writing, so you're going to see less than network speeds. rsync also does a lot of computing, so that is also a source of delay. For faster cpu's the delay is not so big. I get near network speed ( 80 Mbit/s on a 100 Mbit/s LAN) between two of my faster machines. best regards keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html