On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, may nothing wrote:

> Swiftly said: It took nearly 12 minutes to get 250 MB via curltest2 app
> while it only took roughly 3 minutes with the sftp client.

This is primarily due to the way the SFTP protocol works and how libssh2 is
made to speak that protocol. It is a known limitation of libssh2 and we've
talked within that project on what can be done to overcome it. Nobody has yet
tried to actually write any code to make it happen though.

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