Switch `--bwlimit` without effect

[paulmenzel]

Rsync 3.1.3 on the server.

Our user start a transfer to our server with

rsync --bwlimit=1m subreads.bam [email protected]:/project/something

and on our server we see (obfuscated):

user   8219 24.5  0.0  15928  2132 ?        Ds   10:11  28:03 rsync --server -vlogDtpre.iLsfx --bwlimit=1024 --partial . /project/something/bla
user   8220  0.0  0.0  15668   192 ?        S    10:11   0:00 rsync --server -vlogDtpre.iLsfx --bwlimit=1024 --partial . /project/sweet/bla

So the limit should be one Megabyte per second. But we see constant transfer rates of 100 MB/s (no bursts).

Is that expected?

[paulmenzel]

It could be, that the network traffic is caused by transferring the file to an NFS mount, and Rsync is in the beginning checking, what files are already present.

[szdytom]

maybe it can work if try --bwlimit=1000