On Jan 10 17:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 10 15:24, Steven Hartland wrote: > > If your running Windows 7 or 2k8 are you running the following hotfix, if > > not > > you should try that too, just in case you machine has got a degraded tcp > > stack. > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983528 > > I tried that, but it doesn't install. The installer tells me "The > update is not applicable to your computer." This is W7 64 bit on a > Lenovo laptop. > > What's also puzzeling is this. I tried this on three virtual machines > as well, W7 32, W7 64, 2008R2 64. In all three VMs scp was almost just > as fast as sftp, about 13 MB/s. > > So why is scp (and rsync, too, btw) half as fast on the real HW as on > the VMs while sftp is three times faster?!? That doesn't make sense.
...and just for kicks I replaced the laptop drive with another one holding a W7 32 bit installation and tried with that. Now scp and sftp are both fast, about 36 MB/s. Go figure! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple