[PLUG] Incredibly Slow scp Across Local Ethernet

Paul Mullen pem at nellump.net
Mon Jan 12 17:22:02 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:59:36PM -0800, Terry Griffin wrote:
> 
> scp's built-in progress bar is highly misleading. I suspect it's not
> accounting for local buffering. I notice this when I'm transfering over

That's the second suggestion that scp's progress bar may be bogus. How
might I determine for sure? I can 'ls -l' the same directory that scp is
copying the file into, and the file size reported is the same as what
scp says its transfered.


Paul





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