[paramiko] SFTP performance for large files

Wouter van Heyst larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org
Wed Dec 13 05:08:35 PST 2006


On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:25:36PM -0500, Bill Zingler wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have been doing some benchmarks on Linux for transferring files over SSH.
> It appears that paramiko works relatively well for files less than 1 MB, but
> for larger files the transfer time as compared to scp for 100 MB and 1 GB
> becomes 20 times longer.  Does anyone have any ideas as to why that is?

Not yet, but in order to get a better grip on it, does that happen for
individual files only, or also if you transfer 100 1MB sized files?

Wouter van Heyst
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