Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Bob Byrnes" Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:45:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A98749C7BD0A0428CBE0B035BB469A2037688@exchange.engineering.scaled.com> from "Peter Siebold" (Sep 9, 1:46pm) Organization: Curl Corporation X-Address: 1 Cambridge Center, 10th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142-1612 X-Phone: 617-761-1238 X-Fax: 617-761-1201 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem Message-Id: <20040913174517.94866E538@carnage.curl.com> On Sep 9, 1:46pm, Peter Siebold wrote: -- Subject: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem > > I updated to the newest version of cygwin dll on 9/7/4 and after sftp > suffered performance issues when issuing a get on a large file. File > transfers now stall and do not complete. After downgrading to version > of 1.5.10-3 of cygwin sftp then it works fine. > -- End of excerpt from Peter Siebold Hi Peter ... I am continuing to investigate this issue (see the cygwin-patches mailing list for ongoing discussions if you're interested). The problem was triggered by ... On Sep 4, 11:51pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: -- Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.11-1 > > Changes since 1.5.10-3: > > ... > > - Fix some problems with rsync hangs on Windows NT class systems. (Bob Byrnes) > -- End of excerpt from Christopher Faylor Here are some work-arounds that you can use until we have a real fix, listed in order of most- to least-recommended: -- Use slightly smaller buffers with sftp. "sftp -B 8192" or even "sftp -B 12288" should work. The default buffer size seems to be 16k (in spite of the manpage, which claims it is 32k). -- Use scp or some other file transfer protocol over ssh, like rsync or tar. The problem seems to affect sftp more than other programs. -- Downgrade to a version of cygwin before 1.5.11-1. I hope this helps. -- Bob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/