Re: sshd and scp/sftp: slow throughput on windows machines

2006-03-20 Thread Cary Jamison
Max Stein wrote: > Unfortunately, the performance of the cygwin sshd server is very poor > when it comes to copying large files. I have made this observation on > several new and fast machines (3 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 100 MB/s Intel Pro > network card) running with Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. The

RE: sshd and scp/sftp: slow throughput on windows machines

2006-03-19 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> Ah, so your first MB was Megabit and the others were MegaByte... To get it straight, and for the archives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MB - overwiew. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit lower case "b", also @ "More than one bit" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiB - UPPER case "B" here. Another

Re: sshd and scp/sftp: slow throughput on windows machines

2006-03-18 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
At 22:52 2006-03-18 +0100, Max Stein wrote: >> 1. Is it possible to increase the bandwith by having the client aggregate >> multiple sessions through a single pipe? > >Could you please give me some advice how this can be achieved? I am not an >SSH guru yet. Unfortunately neither am I. It was an i

Re: sshd and scp/sftp: slow throughput on windows machines

2006-03-18 Thread Kevin K
On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Max Stein wrote: Unfortunately, the performance of the cygwin sshd server is very poor when it comes to copying large files. I have made this observation on several new and fast machines (3 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 100 MB/s Intel Pro network card) running with Windows

Re: sshd and scp/sftp: slow throughput on windows machines

2006-03-18 Thread Max Stein
1. Is it possible to increase the bandwith by having the client aggregate multiple sessions through a single pipe? Could you please give me some advice how this can be achieved? I am not an SSH guru yet. 2. It would seem that PPTP connections can be much faster. E.g. a FreeBSD MPD running on

Re: sshd and scp/sftp: slow throughput on windows machines

2006-03-18 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
At 02:49 2006-03-18 +0100, Max Stein wrote: >Unfortunately, the performance of the cygwin sshd server is very poor when >it comes to copying large files. I have made this observation on several new >and fast machines (3 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 100 MB/s Intel Pro network card) >running with Windows XP o