William H. Magill on 19 Oct 2003 13:22:02 -0400


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


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.


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