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Subject: RE: very poor cygwin scp performance in some situations
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:03:48 +0100
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On 27 March 2006 16:39, Steven Hartland wrote:

> I've done quite a bit of digging and not found any real answers
> on why cygwin's scp performance is so poor.

  See the thread about "select() too slow" last week for an explanation of the
Nagle algorithm, how windoze's implementation of it appears to be crippling,
and how using TCP_NODELAY can fix everything.  (Thread ran from 11 Mar to 19
Mar). 

    cheers,
      DaveK
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