On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:57:59PM -0800, mad fencer wrote:
> I am using curl to download relatively large files (~1 GB) over SCP. I have noticed that both the curl command line and libcurl embedded in my application transfer data much slower than the scp command line. Curl and libcurl get about 350 KB/sec, and scp gets about 600-800 KB/sec for the same file.
>
> Does anybody know why this might be? Are there curl configuration options I could set to speed it up?

It's a known issue with libssh2. There's no obvious and clear path to a
resolution that I'm aware of.

>>> Dan

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