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[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:05:21PM -0800, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> >     I've actually been getting steadily more concerned with SSH's
> > performance.  FTP runs at about 3MB/s, standard SCP at 1MB/s, and SFTP at
> > 100KB/s(!!!).
> 
> this can be improved by fixing the sftp client. just go for it.

To be more specific, the sftp client does a round-trip for each block 
of data from the server. It should be fixed to:

1. Read the largest possible blocks at a time
2. Do some readahead, i.e keep at least one request pending at all times

-d

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