Nautilus vs. command line scp

[Steven Harms]

I can confirm the nautilus scp issues.  It also will hang if more than a few
instances are scp'ing files from 3 or more nautlius windows, which I assume
is because nautilus does not do them sequentially, and doesn't have a
default max connections.  There are many open bugs on nautilus in launchpad
also, many over a year old, so it might be better to check the nautilus camp
and check if people are still working on it.

Steven Harms

On 9/8/06, Saad Shakhshir <shakhshir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've noticed some strange behavior when connecting to a server through
> nautilus and downloading files as opposed to running scp straight from the
> command line.  I ran several tests that involved downloading a large file
> from a remote server both through the nautilus GUI and from the command
> line.  This confirmed my suspicions which are highlighted in the below
> linked screenshots.
>
> The download behavior of nautilus is extremely erratic with download
> speeds continually spiking from zero to 160kb/s and then back to zero.  When
> comparing the nautilus graph to the scp graph, the difference is
> incredible.  Commandline scp is nearly impeccably smoothe, with few but very
> regular spikes.  These tests were run at several different times of the day
> and continued to produce similar results.
>
> Does anyone have working knowledge of the nautilus code that might have an
> idea as to what is going on here?  Note that in terms of average speed they
> were both roughly the same (commandline scp was slightly faster on average).
>
>
> nautilus: http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3236/nautilusqq6.png
> scp: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5474/scplr0.png
>
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