Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/18/17:10:48
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 XP or Windows
> 2003 Server. The best speed achievable was about 4 MB/s when
> copying a file from the SSH client to the SSH server; when doing it
> the other way round, the throughput was even worse, about 2.3 MB/s.
> I tried it on three different machines running the newest version
> of cygwin's sshd und scp/sftp. The results were approximately the
> same.
> Neither the client's nor the server's processor was really busy.
> The CPU usage oscillated around 30-40%.
>
> Setting up the same scenario on linux yielded a completely
> different picture. Using the Knoppix disc 4.0.2 on the client and
> the server machine I easily achieved a throughput of 10.8 MB/ in
> both directions (pushing a file to the server or downloading a file
> from it).
>
> What could be done to improve the performance of cygwin's SSH
> server? There were already some older posts dealing with the same
> problem but nobody had really a constructive idea or proposal.
>
>
> Max Stein
For what it is worth, I've also noticed his using the Putty tools,
including Putty's scp client. At first I thought it had to do with
my wifi connection, but even when both computers were connected
directly to a switch together, it was much slower than I would have
expected.
The numbers you quoted above are in the ballpark of what I've
measured with Cygwin's clients.
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