SFTP performance hit?

[Josh Johnson]

What does 'top' look like while transfering? There will be a little bit of 
overhead associated with sftp/scp because of encryption, but I wouldn't 
think that much.

-JoshJ
http://lotuseaters.no-ip.com

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Frank Kumro wrote:

> I have one of my friends transfering multiple gigs of data to my linux
> machine. While he is transfering my machine bogs (AMD XP 3200+, 1gb
> 3200 ram,160gb hd) to the point where the mouse and keyboard lag. This
> is the first time my machine has EVER bogged and lagged. He is only
> transfering at 230kb/s , my question is there anyway to "tune" sftp or
> am I better off setting up vsftp and calling it a day?
> -- 
> Frank
> Shenanigans!!
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