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.