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: <a href="http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3236/nautilusqq6.png">http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3236/nautilusqq6.png</a> scp: <a href="http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5474/scplr0.png">http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5474/scplr0.png </a> -SS-