sftp transfer with Nautilus slow

[NoOp]

On 09/11/2009 04:28 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
> 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
> 

Perhaps these will help?

<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bnautilus+%2Bsftp+%2Bslow&btnG=Search>

The first link:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/315664
[nautilus sftp transfer very slow]
is a duplicate of:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/250517
[gvfs performs slowly on bulk sftp transfers]