Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:55:17PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
>
>> I got distracted by work and forgot to ask how rsync-over-ssh would
>> help transfering (not synchronizing) large amounts of data? It has to
>> transfer an equal amount of bytes over the same encrypted channel
>> that scp does.
>
> It is possible that there are differences in efficiency between these
> implementations, but I have not measured them.
What iplementations? scp versus piping data over ssh? They both use
OpenSSL and its libcrypto for the encryption (which is the bottleneck).
I thought Andrew meant scp's performance degraded when dealing with
gigabyte files.
--
ilmari
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