SFTP performance hit?

[David W. Aquilina]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:24:16PM -0400, Cyber Source wrote:
> Don't know if it would be different not knowing what's really slowing it 
> down but what about ssh? scp?
 
Both scp and sftp will use ssh for transport. 

What kind of files are being transferred? As it's using ssh for transport, ssh will try and compress the data further. Handy for WANs, not so much for LANs or very slow hosts. If the files are already fairly compressed (such as movies, pictures, or sound files) this will result in a bit of wasted time. 



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