copying files via ssh using nautilus is slow and freezes parts of my desktop.

[Martin Kossick]

I copyied a folder with more than 100 photos to another PC using nautilus and 'ssh://'.

The transmission rate was only ~14 KB/s, using scp it reached more than 30 KB/s.

During the process of copying some parts of my desktop didnt react correctly.
For example: I wasnt able to change windows or desktops by using the lower panel, but had no problems doing this with alt+tab.

I upgraded to Hardy yesterday, had no problems with gutsy.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug. what is the copy speed use the sftp command line tool? could you get a nautilus stacktrace when it's hanging

[Martin Kossick (hacktick)]

The copy speed with sftp is today about 27 KB/s, using natilus ~13 KB/s.
I have difficulties reproducing the freezing this week, but will continue friday.

[Michael Kaiser (patheticpat)]

I can confirm the part about the low speed. When copying a large file (1.6 GB) via Nautilus (2.22.2), the speed was around 4 MB/s, when I use the scp or sftp commandline tools the speed is 11 MB/s. Nautilus never froze during a copy operation though.

[Martin Kossick (hacktick)]

I'm sorry but I can't reproduce the freeze any more. This speed problem still exists.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is already some gvfs bugs about speed issues, closing this one this the current version seems to work correctly

[Michael Kaiser (patheticpat)]

Sebastian, could you please point me to the relevant bugs, I wasn't able to find anything useful. Thank you.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523015 for example on the topic

[Michael Kaiser (patheticpat)]

I already read that one, and please correct me if i'm wrong, but that one appears to be about upload operations only.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue described there was slow upload speed and freeze, what you seem to get is a different bug and should not be commenting on this one but rather open a new one then, I suggest opening it directly on bugzilla.gnome.org because the speed issue might be tricky, especially that you seem to be the only one to have it on download, and they know the code better

[Michael Kaiser (patheticpat)]

Argh, how stupid. I was sure Martin was talking about download too, I should read bug descriptions better, sorry about that. So I'll file a new bug on the gnome bugtracker then.