Jon Bernard wrote: > Something like > > pax -w | ssh somehost 'pax -r' > > has the same effect as scp, but transfers files much more quickly. Thats odd, as scp and ssh both share the same encryption engines, and encrypt all traffic. May I ask how you measured this? > > My quick testing has also shown pax to be somewhat faster than tar in > this case. > > Jon Bernard > > Peng Chen wrote: > >> Surprisingly, the SCP performance is heavily bound to CPU power. In >> the following table we compared performance among four different >> machines. Note that this is NOT benchmark, we use this table only to >> understand where is the bottleneck. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615