Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero > > real 1m28.652s > user 0m0.050s > sys 0m0.450s > $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero > > real 0m27.329s > user 0m0.070s > sys 0m0.390s > > Nice difference, right?
Stop! Could the file /var/www/testi.100M be in the OS cache during the second try? If not, than a 300% speed improvement is certainly nice. Cheers, Viktor PS: I'm too lazy -- and too tired -- to try it out myself. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/