Extremely slow SFTP, but fast SSH?

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Thu, 13 May 2010 17:18:41 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> On 05/13/2010 12:50 PM, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
>> When logging in to my desktop with SFTP, the connection is limited to
>> around 1 (yes, one) kilobyte per second. It can take over a minute to
>> respond to "ls" in my home folder.
>> It seems to be a routing problem. When I'm at the desktop, logging in
>> to 127.0.0.1 or the local IP-address (192.0.x.x) results in a fast
>> connection. But when I log in to my external IP address (84.106.195.207
>> at the moment), the connection is as slow as mentioned above. The
>> strange thing is, that when I log in using ssh or ssh -X, the
>> connection does work at full speed. So that implies that there's
>> nothing wrong with the routing after all. Unless there's a difference
>> between the two that I'm not aware of.
>> 
>> Can anyone help me out?
> 
> Seems to be common:
> https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=SFTP+%2Bslow

Bugs with the words "SFTP" and "slow" in the title are common.
But they're not the same issue.

>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/250517

Again, this is not the same issue.



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