Re: SCP file transfer speed

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

Stephan wrote:
> When I copy large files through scp to a NetBSD box, I get transfer
> speeds of only 7 MB/s on a 100 MBit connection. This should be around
> 11 MB/s. I´ve seen this on different x86/amd64 hardware with NetBSD 5,
> 6 and 7-BETA. The NICs are largely wm, fxp and bnx.
> 
> Can others reproduce this?

I am seeing 4 MB/s on a gigabit Ethernet when compression is enabled
in the ssh configuration.  With compression disabled, I get 16 MB/s.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost