From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri May 4 19:27:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C3237B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f452Rb032505; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f452RbR55546; Fri, 4 May 2001 19:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 19:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105050227.f452RbR55546@vashon.polstra.com> To: hubs@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: j.hall@f5.com Subject: Re: ftp-master method In-Reply-To: <3AF336A4.2BECC507@f5.com> References: <20010502161330.B5017@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <200105041644.f44GiuO54477@vashon.polstra.com> <3AF336A4.2BECC507@f5.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <3AF336A4.2BECC507@f5.com>, John Hall wrote: > > I use cvsup to mirror about 50GB of FTP archives in addition to the > FreeBSD cvsup trees. It works great. About 75% of the time an rsync > took and about 20% of the time a mirror.pl took. One nice thing is > that it balances the load between the server and client very nicely > both in terms of CPU as well as network load. Thanks for the info! That's the first actual data I've heard on this topic. Too bad you don't have a bigger test case ... ;-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message