SFTP performance hit?

[Frank Kumro]

We are transfering movies and music (legal of course) but I noticed
the machine did not speed up once the file transfers were completed.
So I decided since I updated so much (im back on slack) that maybe a
reboot would help. Well then the kernel (which i was just running)
wouldnt boot (says it was too large...wtf i was just running it). So i
boot into the 2.4 kernel and re-compile the 2.6 kernel and everything
is fast again. However I am going to test the file transfers again
tonight...ill post back once I see whats up with it. Ill check out
'top' when the transfer is going on tonight. Thanks again guys

On 9/13/05, David W. Aquilina <david at starkindler.us> wrote:
> 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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> --
> David W. Aquilina
> david at starkindler.us
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Frank
Shenanigans!!