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@@ -33,11 +33,22 @@ While pylsyncd is running and monitoring /tmp/src, open another shell: $ mkdir /tmp/src/foo $ touch /tmp/src/foo/testfile - $ ... play around and watch the debug log ... + # ... play around and watch the debug log ... The default aggregation window is 60 seconds, so your changes above are -queued, optimized and finally synchronized. This allows heavy IO loads -and does not interfere with your usual disk performance. +queued, optimized and finally synchronized. + + +Performance +----------- +You might want to lower the IO priority of pylsyncd, so the forked rsync +processes won't interfere with your workload. This can be done using +ionice(1) on Linux 2.6.13 or later (see man ionice(1)): + + $ ionice -n7 pylsyncd ... + +In addition you can fine-tune some (currently hardcoded) limits in +pylsyncd.py. Some notes on paths |