sftp transfer with Nautilus slow

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> Here's a phenomenon I've observed in all Ubuntu releases starting with
> Gutsy, and I've never been able to figure out an explanation.  Can
> somone explain to me why transferring a file over sftp protocal with
> Nautilus only works half as fast as using command line sftp client or
> filezilla?

Wow - you aren't kidding are you?
I created a 120meg file via /dev/urandom and dd, then tried it both ways.

   ~/.gvfs/sftp on riviera.local/home/brian
==> time cp /tmp/test .

real	3m15.006s
user	0m0.116s
sys	0m2.320s

==> time sftp -b batch brian at riviera
sftp> put test
Uploading test to /home/brian/test

real	0m48.166s
user	0m9.497s
sys	0m13.497s

That's over my 100baseT half duplex LAN, one end Jaunty one end Hardy.
That's a bug as far as I'm concerned - if you file it, let me know and
I'll chime in there too.

Brian

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