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ftp way quicker than cp?
- From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:16:24 -0700
- Subject: ftp way quicker than cp?
Ftp is orders of magnitude quicker than cp. Here's the situation.
File to copy: 25 Meg.
From location: Santa Clara, USA.
To location: Shanghai, China
Network connection: Not really sure but both Santa Clara and Shanghai
are in the same NT domain.
I tried the following:
$ time ncftpput sons-cc Release 2.2.0.7.images.tar.gz
2.2.0.7.images.tar.gz: 25.99 MB 81.70
kB/s
real 5m34.187s
user 0m0.327s
sys 0m1.124s
$ time cp 2.2.0.7.images.tar.gz //sons-shanghai/users/ftp/release
real 133m39.290s
user 0m1.186s
sys 0m7.406s
Why such a huge difference! Had I thought that such a huge difference
would have occurred I would have switched to ftp long ago!
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Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
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