On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:19:12PM +0000, Kev wrote:
> We are seeing very slow performance when using Curl under MS-Windows. The problem seems to be when we are downloading files via HTTP GET requests. For example, downloading an 80MB file across our network gives the following results:1. Mac running curl command line tool 7.24.0 between 9 & 20 seconds
> 2. MS-Windows running curl command line tool 7.34.0 between 142 & 167 seconds
>
> We have duplicated this on VMs running Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server. To rule-out it being a general networking issue on the VMs we have also timed how long it takes to download the files using IE and wfetch. Both of these applications downloaded the file at a similar performance to the Mac.
>
> The command line we have performed the test with is nothing special:
>
> curl "http://x.x.x.x/myfileurl" > curloutput.txt
>
>
> Do you need any additional information to investigate this?

The Microsoft KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823764 was brought up as
a possible problem in http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-02/0009.html and commit
43e045fc was added to 7.30.0 to fix it. Do any of the other workaround
mentioned there help in you case, or is this a different issue?

>>> Dan
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Received on 2014-01-21