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by tarasglek 708 days ago
Weird to be comparing vs rsync. Rsync is notorious for maximizing latency as it has no pipelining.

Better baseline would be transferring data via ssh + tar. Or serving a directory over http and concurrently downloading a file with axel

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Sure it may be weird, but my company utilized rsync for almost everything, and we were transferring files that were 100+Gb on the regular so this was actually a great tool to compare against since we were already using it for large file transfers.
I would be more interested in seeing throughput vs rsync or tar+ssh (or scp, really).