Bug 218798

Summary:	kio_sftp is much slower than command line scp
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Todor Buyukliev <todor>
Component:	sftp	Assignee:	Andreas Schneider <asn>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	a, alessandro-ghersi, alpha_one_x86, alvaro.aguilera, david, kernelcruncher, muziofg, senjas, vojta.d, xia_nai
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Use sftp_async_read to speed up get requests

Description Todor Buyukliev 2009-12-15 15:01:56 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.1)
Compiler:          gcc version 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839] (SUSE Linux) Target: x86_64-suse-linux
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

uploading a file to a server on the lan runs at about 1MB/s through dolphin's sftp. when using command line scp to the same server the speed is 10MB/s. the lan is 100 Mbit/s.

the sftp ioslave is underutilizing the bandwidth to the point of being unusable for large files.

this might be caused by explicit setting of the socket write buffer size to some small value (which disables the kernel autotuning) or by using small buffer when reading the local file.

Comment 1 Andreas Schneider 2009-12-15 21:26:42 UTC

The reason is that the old kio implementation and the current sftp implementation in libssh is a blocking IO. We are working on this so you have to wait for the next libssh version.

Comment 2 Andreas Schneider 2009-12-16 09:34:35 UTC

*** Bug 218845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Tommi Tervo 2009-12-21 13:11:04 UTC

*** Bug 219532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Andreas Schneider 2010-07-21 16:35:12 UTC

*** Bug 245204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Andreas Schneider 2010-07-21 16:35:30 UTC

*** Bug 239824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Philip Lorenz 2010-09-17 15:28:16 UTC

Created attachment 51758 [details]
Use sftp_async_read to speed up get requests

The attached patch uses sftp_async_read to speed up the sftp kioslave. Preliminary testing showed that the transfer speed locally increased from ~3MByte/s to 18-20 MByte/s.

It should apply cleanly to trunk (r1152597) but was developed against the KDE 4.5 branch. 

Let me know if there are any issues with the patch and I will try to fix them.

Comment 7 Andreas Schneider 2010-09-18 10:57:46 UTC

Philip:

Thank you very much for your patch! I haven't implemented this yet cause we plan to have complete async API in libssh 0.5. I think the concept will be much the same how to use it. So it makes probably sense to apply it now.

I will talk to Aris how the API should look like in libssh 0.5, review your patch carefully and come back to you.

Comment 8 Andreas Schneider 2010-10-07 12:25:02 UTC

*** Bug 253430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Dario Andres 2010-11-21 18:10:35 UTC

*** Bug 246557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Dario Andres 2010-11-21 18:20:47 UTC

*** Bug 240814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Andrew Gaydenko 2011-03-25 05:26:51 UTC

4.6.1 is still infected with the issue.

Comment 12 Andrew Gaydenko 2011-03-25 05:28:29 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 13 Andreas Schneider 2011-03-25 09:43:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 254865 ***