This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong wrote: > # time ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat client.img.gz" | gunzip > > /dev/hda1 > >time reports a real time of 6 mins 1.8s (including ssh password entry)! > >There's still a slow down at the 1GB mark for about 12 seconds, then >full speed transfer is reached for another 200MB or so, after that the >transfer trickles along until the end of the file.
>(3) Netcat > >I thought I would try netcat. > >Server: > > $ cat image.img.gz | nc -l -p 5030 -q 10 > >Client: > > # time nc serverip 5030 | gunzip > /dev/hda1 > >time reports real time of 5m18s. Wow! I was going to suggest using netcat, or disabling compression in SSH, because you're sending over a gzipped image so you might have experienced some slowdown (maybe the 50s difference between ssh and netcat) due to SSH compression maybe actually increasing the amount of data transmitted. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
