Improve rsync transfer speeds

coderanger / kitchen-sync

Test Kitchen transport plugin to speed up tests.

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Improve rsync transfer speeds #32

Open amontalban opened 7 years ago

amontalban commented 7 years ago

Patch to improve rsync transfer speeds and also allow it to run without TTY.

For more info check: https://gist.github.com/KartikTalwar/4393116

coderanger commented 7 years ago

I think --numeric-ids is wrong for this use case and disabling rsync compression (-z) is very wrong for any WAN link (i.e. anything other than local VBox) because CPU is plentiful and network bandwidth is not.