[Beowulf] 10G and rsync

Michael Di Domenico mdidomenico4 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 07:26:17 PST 2020


does anyone know or has anyone gotten rsync to push wire speed
transfers of big files over 10G links?  i'm trying to sync a directory
with several large files.  the data is coming from local disk to a
lustre filesystem.  i'm not using ssh in this case.  i have 10G
ethernet between both machines.   both end points have more then
enough spindles to handle 900MB/sec.

i'm using 'rsync -rav --progress --stats -x --inplace
--compress-level=0 /dir1/ /dir2/' but each file (which is 100's of
GB's) is getting choked at 100MB/sec

running iperf and dd between the client and the lustre hits 900MB/sec,
so i fully believe this is an rsync limitation.

googling around hasn't lent any solid advice, most of the articles are
people that don't check the network first...

with the prevalence of 10G these days, i'm surprised this hasn't come
up before, or my google-fu really stinks.  which doesn't bode well
given its the first work day of 2020 :(


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