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John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > > CVSup is slow, insecure, and a memory hog.
> > if cvsup is slow, you're not using it right.
> Well it is fast on our local links but on a long delay link, like what
> we have from here in SA to USA, it is pretty slow. With rsync from
> ftp-master, ftp-master.us and ftp-master.eu I can get 100-150kByte/s,
> but with cvsup (with the -s option) I can only get about 30kByte/s. It
> is less of a memory hog than rsync on the server side though.

you must be doing something wrong.  cvsup was designed to work well on
high-latency links.  are you running it with -s?

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