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Rsync slow as heck for everyone else???
I'm running rsync with a unix box on the same gigabit switch and it is ridiculously slow. So severely slow that it copied 200ish MB in about 3 hours. That's pretty harsh. Any ideas? Chris Green
Created an account to post my solution for this problem.
It's not rsync beeing slow. It's ssh. After compiling the newest version of openssh my problem went away.
If you want to change out the default implementation of ssh:
You can use the new ssh-client for rsync/scp without installing it. For rsync:
For scp:
Got 7.5MB/s on avrage on a 500mb file :D
It's not rsync beeing slow. It's ssh. After compiling the newest version of openssh my problem went away.
wget http://baksmell.netrunner.nu/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz
tar xvf openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz
cd openssh-6.1p1
apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev
./configure
make
If you want to change out the default implementation of ssh:
make install
You can use the new ssh-client for rsync/scp without installing it. For rsync:
rsync -e "/root/openssh-6.1p1/ssh" ...
For scp:
scp -S "/root/openssh-6.1p1/ssh" ...
Got 7.5MB/s on avrage on a 500mb file :D
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