[CentOS] slow network throughput, how to improve?

Wed Nov 24 08:51:40 UTC 2010
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:35 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>> root at zaxen02.securehosting.co.za:/vm/xen/template/centos-5-x64-cpanel
>> root at zaxen02.securehosting.co.za:/
>> root at zaxen02.securehosting.co.za's password:
>> centos-5-x64-cpanel.tar.gz
>>                                                    100% 1163MB
>> 29.1MB/s   00:40
>
> Are you using scp here?  You'll find you get better throughput if you use
> something else, or change the cipher to something lighter weight
>
> jh
> _______________________________________________


Yes, I used scp as a quick simple test. What would give me better
performance though?

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