Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Compression is a big win for remote tranfers. For local ones of
course
it's a net loss.
It's not as simple as that.
I also tested across the LAN,
and compression slowed things down there also.
Also notice, I demonstrated that compressing and
transfering random data is faster than zeros.
It's something to do with the twisty maze of
(zlib) buffers and sleeps within ssh I think.
Pádraig.