Rsync Balancing

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:57, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > > > >   
> > > > --bwlimit=KBPS          limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second
> > > > 
> > > > Tim.
> > > > 
> > > OK, now that i re-read the man page, that option is for rsync clients. If I am
> > > reading this correctly, I need to use setsockopt() to slow down the server. man
> > > setsockopt leaves me clueless.
> > 
> > --bwlimit slows down whichever end is sending.  What kind of
> > command are you using?
> > 
> I am running the rsycn server as an xinetd service with all of the options
> configured in rsyncd.conf. I suppose that I can add the bwlimit to
> "server_args     = --daemon" which is in the xinetd configuration file.
> 
> IOW server_args     = --daemon --bwlimit=whatever

I normally only use it over ssh, but I'd assume that the
initiating program must have some way to pass it's arguments
over to the other end in daemon and inetd modes.

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  Les Mikesell
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