Re: please test: Secure ports tree updating

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 10/27/04

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    To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:46:36 +0200

    John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> writes:
    > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
    > > Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> writes:
    > > > CVSup is slow, insecure, and a memory hog.
    > > if cvsup is slow, you're not using it right.
    > Well it is fast on our local links but on a long delay link, like what
    > we have from here in SA to USA, it is pretty slow. With rsync from
    > ftp-master, ftp-master.us and ftp-master.eu I can get 100-150kByte/s,
    > but with cvsup (with the -s option) I can only get about 30kByte/s. It
    > is less of a memory hog than rsync on the server side though.

    you must be doing something wrong. cvsup was designed to work well on
    high-latency links. are you running it with -s?

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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