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Re: ftp way quicker than cp?
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I was aware that there is SMB overhead - just didn't think it would be
> that great!
It's not necessarily overhead as in "extra data" but also round trip
delay times. SMB was designed for use with a low-latency local network
connection, in contrast to FTP which was designed to just stream raw
data over a TCP connection. In other words there's a bunch of message
passing and other "overhead" that takes TIME in addition to bandwith
with SMB.
> > IOW, this is not really Cygwin-related.
>
> This is true if such large overhead is only attributable to SMB.
I think you'll find that the Cygwin "cp" command takes about the same
time as "copy" from a regular command prompt, which should also be
comparable to Explorer's copy function.
Brian
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