Re: sftp coming across slow?

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:05:10PM -0400, Larry Brown wrote:
> I have a system on a 500 k I-net conxn.  When I transfer files via ftp the
> entire bandwidth is used and the transfer is as expected.  However, when
> using sftp the packets seem to send and arrive in little segments separated
> by what seems to be about a second and a half to two seconds and the
> bandwidth is down to about a quarter or less of the 500k avail. 

Are both systems running Linux?  I have seen lots of issues between
various implementations of scp (which is basically what sftp uses).
Sometimes performance is great and sometimes it really sucks, depending
on who the client and server are.  I haven't seen the issue between two
Linux systems though.

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