From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 24 16:27:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDDA16A4AB for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8375543D5C for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:27:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k5OGRmYJ056787; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:27:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:27:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20060624162747.GC83209@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060624023139.GA83209@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: help with 'tar|rsh tar' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:27:49 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 24), Nikolas Britton said: > On 6/23/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > Thanks!, but I got rsh going. I first had to edit /etc/hosts.equiv, > > after that I figured it out: > > > > tar cf - . | rsh 192.168.1.242 'cd /data; tar xpvf -' > > > > I was thinking tar -f as in file.tar but it's not, you have to cd > > into the source directory you want to copy... anyways... I'm > > getting around 30MB/s now... it should be in the 50-60MB/s range... > > Good enough for now though. Thanks again... > > > > hostA = P4 3GHz Prescott, Intel 82547EI GigE, FreeBSD 6.1/i386. > hostB = Athlon64 3000, Marvell Yukon Lite GigE, FreeBSD 6.1/amd64. > > Anyone know why load is so high on hostA, is it because I used tar -v? > top shows: > > CPU states: 0.0% user, 1.5% nice, 26.2% system, 61.4% interrupt, 10.9% idle That 61% interrupt looks bad, but I don't have any ideas. > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND > 18698 nbritton 1 130 20 1292K 832K RUN 171:46 28.12% rsh > 18696 nbritton 1 -4 -20 1588K 1068K getblk 48:25 6.88% bsdtar Try raising the blocksize in tar. The default is 10K. This bumps it to 64K: tar cbf 128 - . | ... -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com