Re: scp took 5 min to xfer 20K?!

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 09/18/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:54:57 GMT

carcassone_fr@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have a 20K test file that I scp'ed between 2 machines. From machine
> A to machine B, it took 287.3 seconds! But from machine B to machine
> A, it only took 0.3 seconds. Can someone shed some light on this?

Sounds like a network misconfiguration on the hosts and/or intervening
equipment (often duplex mismatch).

You've verified with other protocols that the problem is only with
SSH/SCP?

Can you truss/strace the slow one to see what it's doing when it stalls? 

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
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