Speed of protocol fish

Yves Glodt yg at mind.lu
Wed May 10 15:52:10 CEST 2006


Werner Modenbach wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> this is my first posting on this list, so please apologise for any violations 
> of rules here.
> 
> Today I tried to make a backup of a big amount of data to our fileserver using 
> drag and drop in konqueror and fish for access protocol to the server.
> 
> I recognised a limitation of speed of about 1MB/sec. which is really 
> unsatisfying. So I cancelled the copy process. When doing drag and drop with 
> more than 10 subdirs of my data separately in parallel I recognised the same 
> limit for each transfer. But the total transfer rate of all copies was about 
> 10MB/sec. . So this should not be a limit of disk access, CPU power or the 
> network.
> What is the reason for the limitation? Is there anything I can do here?

try sftp:// ... I've also used fish for a long time, and sftp works much 
better, and is not such a hack than fish...

best regards,
Yves

> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> - Werner -


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