Re: help over "rsync vs cvsupd perfmance"

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-01-01 18:23, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, January 1, 2007 10:30 am, Saverio Iacovelli wrote:
> > Ok, I want to do a good test. So, I need some days
> > yet, about one or two weeeks, the CVSup and rsync
> > mirrors that I will test they are:
> >
> > 1) chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de
> > 2) AllBSD.org
> > 3) TheShell.com
> >
> > My intention about test is the following:
>
> You may want to test partial updates - i.e. test an update from 1.6 to
> 1.7.  There may be a speed difference in the way the two programs do the
> update checks, as compared to downloading all the files at once.

Yes, this is probably the most useful test since I expect that this is 
the most common usage. If one needs to go from scratch there are tar- 
balls of the source that can be downloaded and then cvsup/rsync can be 
used to get to latest.

But don't let that stop you from testing going from scratch also.

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Erik Wikström