On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 20:07, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Chad Skinner wrote: > > > Does anyone know why there would be a 8500KBs difference between scp and > > ftp. I was downloading an 80MB file over ftp at 120KBps and when I uploaded > > Well, ignoring your math for the moment, ftp will almost always be faster > since it doesn't need to continuously encrypt the data stream. Compressing > the data stream adds even more overhead, which will slow you down even > further, especially by comparison to an unencrypted, uncompressed protocol > on a fast link. >
I have never had a link fast enough that a 300Mhz pentium could not keep it saturated. Hell, probably a 100MHz would keep a dsl link as full as can be. Must be nice. Does scp do a checksum or comparision like rsync and won't reall overwrite a file if it is the same? Just WAGing. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
