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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-03-26 14:58:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-03-26 15:06:52 +0100 |
| commit | 3dfd8af534a7cab94d8bb60c1554944d48911f6c (patch) | |
| tree | 1ae0054d581e6e5dfb35789f1ba48970b8ec2895 | |
| parent | ee172b1a06e21fafe34410f285695bab010667b7 (diff) | |
offload: Disable SSH-level compression.
* guix/scripts/offload.scm (remote-pipe): Remove '-z' lsh command line
argument. This makes transfers almost an order of magnitude slower.
OpenSSH's ssh(1) man page notes: "Compression is desirable on modem lines
and other slow connections, but will only slow down things on fast
networks." See also
<http://www.spikelab.org/blog/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-compared.html>.
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/offload.scm | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/offload.scm b/guix/scripts/offload.scm index e8dd927f54..2936a262e1 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/offload.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/offload.scm @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ determined." ;; "-i" (build-machine-private-key machine) ;; ;; XXX: With lsh 2.1, passing '--write-pid' ;; ;; last causes the PID not to be printed. -;; "--write-pid" "--gateway" "--background" "-z" +;; "--write-pid" "--gateway" "--background" ;; (build-machine-name machine))) ;; (line (read-line port)) ;; (status (close-pipe port))) @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ determined." (lambda () ;; Let the child inherit ERROR-PORT. (with-error-to-port error-port - (apply open-pipe* mode %lshg-command "-z" + (apply open-pipe* mode %lshg-command "-l" (build-machine-user machine) "-p" (number->string (build-machine-port machine)) |