[Unison-hackers] File transfer using an external program

[Alan Schmitt]

On 4 juin 09, at 11:35, Jerome Vouillon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has any benchmark been performed regarding the support for invoking an
> external file transfer tool?
>
> I thought Unison was fairly good at transferring large files.  File
> contents are sent in 64 KiB chunks using a synchronous RPC mechanism.
> So, over a fast high-latency connection (DSL, for instance), Unison
> may be somewhat latency bound when synchronizing a single file.  But I
> would expect it to use the full bandwidth when synchronizing two files
> or more.

I haven't done benchmarks, but I have clearly witnessed an improved  
performance using rsync instead of Unison.

Alan
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