On 7/19/05, Gary Clemans-Gibbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgot about the /dev/null idea. interesting result. I scp'd a 10 Mb > file from my gentoo box and it completed fast in a few seconds - speed > 3.3 Mb/s. Not great but faster than the other experiences. > > I then did the same with a 2.5Gb file and it started off at 3.3 or 3.5 > Mb/sec but tailed of continuously until by the time the transfer was 12% > done the transfer speed was down to 50 kb/sec.
heres a clue: have done anything with Nick's suggestions yet?