Description of problem: transfer of large files over sftp is extremely slow. i'm getting about 800K (bits per second) on my 1G network. suggest we either use or 'borrow' the refinements made in the putty application. psftp from the putty package is managing 8M and it's using just a few percent of my rather old CPU. a x10 improvement .. only another x125 to go! i'm hoping the change referred to in the 'putty semi-bug' linked to below will help with that or else that we can further refine the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.20.0-9.fc8 putty-0.60-2.fc8 Additional info: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/flow-control.html
Speed of SFTP transfer depends on several parameters, such as active compression, block size and used cipher. SFTP subsystem from Putty might be optimized for speed however both gnome-vfs2 and gvfs depend on system sftp client. Can you please test the system sftp client (without any arguments) and check the speed? If it's the same as in Nautilus, please reassign this bug to openssh developers.
ah, apologies. i was mostly talking nonsense. i was comparing apples (large files) to oranges (small files) again.
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