fabric/fabric — Issue #571: Extremelly slow get(...) call
Author: JensRantil
Created: 2012-02-27 19:08:42+00:00
State: open

I am experiencing an extremelly slow `get(src, dst)` execution. Fabric seems to be copying with the speed of around 300 kB/s while a copy using `scp` reaches a speed of around 10 MB/s (without compression).

Could anyone help me in debugging this issue further?

Further information:

* load is relativelly low on both machines
* the machines seem to be reading and writing to disc equally much.
* network bandwidth does not seem to be the bottleneck.
* I am using a public key for authentication.
* Probably worked a month ago or so.
* Running Fabric 1.4.0. I've experienced this problem also with an earlier version (1.2.2?) but am not exactly sure which version that was.

I guess I can work around this issue by executing `local("scp ");`. This probably how I will solve it until another fix presents itself.