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* Christopher Faylor (Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:01:34 -0400)
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:20:05PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:12:39 +0200)
[...]
> >Yes, it's fixed now, thanks. You've also done some magic because the 
> >whole rsync file transfer runs about 2 - 6 times faster than it used 
> >to. It's amazing.
> 
> Does rsync use pipes by any chance?

Could be[1]:

"If you get an error like one of these: 
rsync: error writing 4 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe"

> If so, that may be at least part of the reason since that code has
> been revamped.

The horrendous speed increase started with the snapshot from 2007-08-
02.

Thorsten
[1] http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/FAQ.html


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