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Re: How to improve scp speed?
- From: René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:20:24 -0600
- Subject: Re: How to improve scp speed?
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lin q wrote:
> Hi,
> I have 2 Windows XP machines installed with latest cygwin. In using scp
> to copy some large chunk of data, I find that the speed is never over
> 180KB/s. The 2 machines are on the same giga bit sub network.
>
> I wonder if I can do something to improve the speed?
Perhaps enabling compression will help: scp -C ... (same network speed but
faster transmission times).
That is if the scp process is not CPU limited (either side).
HTH
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René Berber
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