Re: [PLUG] Transfer REALLY large file(s) between Linux and OS X

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 09:08 PM, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 20:36, Magnus wrote:
> > I have, many times.  Given an adequate pipe, scp is often at least 3x
> > slower moving a very large (4GB+) file.  Now when I was moving a lot 
> > of
> > files this size, it was over a gigabit pipe so with a slower pipe you
> > might not notice much of a difference.
>
> If only I was lucky enough to get some time on a gigabit pipe ;-)
> Speaking of that, have you ever tried sftp? How have you found its 
> speed
> vs. scp vs. FTP?

One would assume that ANY encrypting protocol will be slower than its 
non-encrypting version, simply by virtue of the extra work involved in 
the encryption cycle. Those CPU cycles have to come from somewhere.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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