Copy with SCP - low performance

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 30.03.2004 schrieb Horacio Reyes um 01:04:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using scp to copy large amount of small files between 2 servers
> with a firewall in the middle, but the copy takes all CPU, this is the
> situation:
> 
> - The files are copied in batch of 100 tif images, in a directory with
> more than 5 million files.

5 million files - that's quite a lot. Which filesystem is running there?
I think ext3(ext2) would not behave very good with so much files in a
directory. Do you experience more slow behaviour accessing this large
directory?

Alexander


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