Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[ilmari@ping.uio.no (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)]

Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:31:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
>> If you transfer gigabyte files via SCP then an optimised ssh binary
>> would be a handy thing to have.
>
> If you transfer gigabyte files via scp, you're screwed. scp has some
> serious performance issues; use rsync-over-ssh.

What kind of performance issues? I just SCPed a 4.2GB file (the woody
ISO's concatenated) over 100BaseT-FD and it sustained around 6.5MB/s and
100% CPU load on the sending side (a 566MHz Celeron). The receiving
side, a 800MHz P-III mobile hovered around 60% CPU load.

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ilmari