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Subject: Re: very poor cygwin scp performance in some situations
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On Mar 27 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.

Cygwin is just emulating POSIX by calling Windows functions.  It's not
an operating system which runs natively on the machine, so what do
you expect?  If you're unhappy with scp's performance you can try
using:

- sftp

- tar over ssh:

    tar cf - dir-to-copy | ssh remotemachine 'cd targetdir && tar xf -'

- http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/


Corinna

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