sftp transfer with Nautilus slow

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:41 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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?
> Perhaps these will help?
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/250517
> [gvfs performs slowly on bulk sftp transfers]

The linked http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523015 seems the
definitive explanation of the issue.

What's disappointing here is the Gnome bug was reported 2008-03-17,
and a workaround implemented 2008-03-19
Two days.  Here we are 18 months later without a fix in any version of Ubuntu.

Brian