proftpd and sftp
Adam Vande More
amvandemore at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 01:25:50 PST 2009
Adam Vande More wrote:
> I've got proftpd running on my server and on a whim tried an sftp
> connection for a website I was working on. To my amazment, transfer
> speeds increase exponentially. Getting a directory of about 300 files
> totaling around 5M takes around 10 minutes using default proftpd.conf
> in passive mode. Same directory takes under 2 using sftp. These
> options are in proftpd.conf
>
> UseReverseDNS off
> IdentLookups off
>
> Why is proftpd so much slower than sftp and any pointers on increasing
> my proftpd performance?
>
I didn't receive a response on this so just reposting in hopes I do.
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