Slow SSH copy

[Anand Buddhdev]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11:55, Thiago Amaury Ferraz wrote:

> Hello All!

Hi Thiago,

> Someone already had some difficulty with SCP/SSH copy? Between
> distinct machines.. I'm with low performance, in the past, I had a
> performance over 50/60 Mbps by RSH/RCP.. but now, I need to use SSH..
> and I'm getting no more than 10 Mbps..

Please keep in mind that SCP has the overhead of encryption. All the 
data is encrypted before being sent, and then decrypted at the other 
end. So SCP will never be as fast as RCP, HTTP or FTP for file 
transfers. I'm not a networking expect, so I won't try to guess how 
much performance is lost using SCP. Perhaps someone else who is more 
knowledgeable might answer that.

Anand