Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

[Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Samuli Suonpaa wrote:

> $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero
> 
> real	1m28.652s
> user	0m0.050s
> sys	0m0.450s
> $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero 
> 
> real	0m27.329s
> user	0m0.070s
> sys	0m0.390s
> 
> Nice difference, right?

Stop!  Could the file /var/www/testi.100M be in the OS cache during the
second try?  If not, than a 300% speed improvement is certainly nice.

Cheers,
Viktor

PS: I'm too lazy -- and too tired -- to try it out myself.
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Viktor Rosenfeld
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