A simple --slow-down=USECs option that is somewhat useful.
[rsync/rsync-patches.git] / slow-down.diff
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1This patch adds a --slow-down=USECs option that causes the sender to scan
2the filelist more slowly, and the generator to scan for deletions more
3slowly. It doesn't do anything to make anyone slow down during the normal
4transfer processing, though.
5
6The idea is to lessen rsync's impact on disk I/O. Unfortunately, there
7should really be a way to affect more of rsync's processing, perhaps by
8specifying a maximum disk I/O rate (and have that affect a maximum stat()
9rate or something like that).
10
11--- old/flist.c
12+++ new/flist.c
13@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ extern int copy_links;
14 extern int copy_unsafe_links;
15 extern int protocol_version;
16 extern int sanitize_paths;
17+extern unsigned long sleep_asec;
18 extern const char *io_write_phase;
19 extern struct stats stats;
20 extern struct file_list *the_file_list;
21@@ -1049,6 +1050,9 @@ static void send_directory(int f, struct
22 }
23
24 send_file_name(f, flist, fbuf, NULL, 0);
25+ /* Sleep for a bit, to avoid hammering the disk. */
26+ if (sleep_asec)
27+ usleep(sleep_asec);
28 }
29
30 fbuf[len] = '\0';
31--- old/options.c
32+++ new/options.c
33@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ int size_only = 0;
34 int daemon_bwlimit = 0;
35 int bwlimit = 0;
36 int fuzzy_basis = 0;
37+unsigned long sleep_asec = 0;
38 size_t bwlimit_writemax = 0;
39 int ignore_existing = 0;
40 int ignore_non_existing = 0;
41@@ -364,6 +365,7 @@ void usage(enum logcode F)
42 rprintf(F," --password-file=FILE read password from FILE\n");
43 rprintf(F," --list-only list the files instead of copying them\n");
44 rprintf(F," --bwlimit=KBPS limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second\n");
45+ rprintf(F," --slow-down=USECs sleep N usec while creating the filelist\n");
46 rprintf(F," --write-batch=FILE write a batched update to FILE\n");
47 rprintf(F," --only-write-batch=FILE like --write-batch but w/o updating destination\n");
48 rprintf(F," --read-batch=FILE read a batched update from FILE\n");
49@@ -492,6 +494,7 @@ static struct poptOption long_options[]
50 {"log-format", 0, POPT_ARG_STRING, &log_format, 0, 0, 0 },
51 {"itemize-changes", 'i', POPT_ARG_NONE, 0, 'i', 0, 0 },
52 {"bwlimit", 0, POPT_ARG_INT, &bwlimit, 0, 0, 0 },
53+ {"slow-down", 0, POPT_ARG_LONG, &sleep_asec, 0, 0, 0 },
54 {"backup", 'b', POPT_ARG_NONE, &make_backups, 0, 0, 0 },
55 {"backup-dir", 0, POPT_ARG_STRING, &backup_dir, 0, 0, 0 },
56 {"suffix", 0, POPT_ARG_STRING, &backup_suffix, 0, 0, 0 },