I wrote a library of FTP routines. If it comes down to having to rewrite in
C or something (am I allowed to say that on a Perl mailing list?), have a
look at http://www.eclipse.net/~pfau/ftplib/.
Thomas Pfau
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http://www.eclipse.net/~pfau/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Kazimierczyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:10 AM
> To: vmsperl
> Subject: Re: Net::FTP speed - summary so far
>
>
> I'll post this for the archives just in case it helps anyone in the
> future:
>
> I did get a big improvement in my Net::FTP transfer times by putting
> "define/EXEC/job multinet_ftp_window_size 6144" in my login.com on
> the remote host. Defining this logical on the local host where
> Net::FTP is running made no difference. This got my transfer times
> down from 23 minutes to about 1 minute. Which is still not as good as
> the 10 or 12 seconds that it takes when using Multinet's FTP client.
>
> This seems to agree with a few other emails I've received: that
> Net::FTP performance is much slower than the os's native ftp client.
> So, if performance is still a problem for me, I may have to replace
> the Net::FTP calls with something like a system('mult ftp...'). Such
> is life...
>
