Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:39:49 -0500 From: "Xn Nooby" <xnooby@gmail.com> To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com> Subject: Re: WinSCP mega-slowness Message-ID: <bdf25fde0602202039v61c36b1cm7b334697a972bfeb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEHBHCAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> References: <72cf361e0602201116g5fcc5551p5bc4f5e77af6a5d4@mail.gmail.com> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEHBHCAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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would doing a 'make install clean' inside /usr/ports/security/hpn-ssh fix the default scp program? On 2/20/06, fbsd_user <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > > There is a patch to OpenSSH to fix the buffer size problem caused be > the different operating systems OpenSSH runs on. When the host and > remote are different operating systems the send/receive buffer sizes > do not match and this causes drastic slow down. Like in using Winscp > client connecting to a FreeBSD box or Linux box. > > ports/security/hpn-ssh/ > > contains the patch code to fix this problem in sshd/ssh. > > Check out the patches home page at > http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Martin > Hepworth > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:16 PM > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: WinSCP mega-slowness > > > Hate to do a me too, but I gotta agree. > > I did the same file transfer using cygwin's scp and winscp and cygwin > was > about 10x faster..... > > > On 2/20/06, Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > For about a year I have noticed that whenever my Windows boxes talk > to my > > Unix boxes, they communicate at about 1/10 normal speed. I copy lots > > (300GB) > > of large files back and forth between machines as I try different > OS's, > > and > > I always see this. > > > > Specifically, if I copy from FreeBSD to FreeBSD, files transfer at > 11 megs > > per second. Between FreeBSD and Linux, at about 8 megs per > > second. Between > > FreeBSD and Windows, about 1 megabyte per second. This is on > identical > > hardware. I've told other people about this, and they usually say I > must > > be > > doing something wrong, but recently a friend of mine upgraded a > Windows > > box > > to SP2, and now they are getting this same slowness. When I copy > from > > Windows to WIndows (XP or W2k), I get 11 megs per second. > > > > My machines are two P4's with gigabit NICs, and I'm using WinSCP and > > (somtimes) pscp.exe on WIndows to talk to sshd on FreeBSD. It's > always a > > shock when I have to copy my data to WIndows, and it takes 30 hours > > instead > > of 3. > > > > Does anyone else ever see this slowness when copying files between > FreeBSD > > and Windows? > > > > Is Windows maybe capping the transfer speed when it talks to Unix? > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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