It appears that scp transfers to a Linux machine (even a VM running on
the Mac) are about twice the speed of scp's to the Mac. This is true of
both openssh 5.1p1 (supplied by Apple) and 5.2p1 (built from macports).
Note that I'm not talking about anything having to do with DNS lookup;
these measurements are dominated by raw transfer rate.
$ time /usr/bin/scp -r user at IP:directory /tmp
MacOS:
real 1m54.649s
user 0m1.879s
sys 0m1.680s
Linux:
real 1m8.447s
user 0m0.400s
sys 0m0.856s
Is this a known issue? Is there any way around it? Slow SSH is really
intolerable, since I use it for everything.
Thanks in advance,
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
