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Subject:  Re: How to improve scp speed?
Date:  Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:20:24 -0600
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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.
>=20
>  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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Ren=E9 Berber


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