FTP slllloooooooowwwww on CentOS vmware

[KenKnight]

Hi all,

This seems to be a pretty common issue, but I've been unable to figure out what is causing it.

I'm trying the perfect setup CentOS 5 and when I connect via FTP it is slow as xmas.

Any suggestions?

EDIT:

I decided to use CoreFTP to transfer via SSH/SFTP and I'm only seeing about 280KB throughput. In contrast on another machine I'm seeing about 3000KB.

The problem machine is a 1U dual core Xeon 2.6Ghz with 2gigs of RAM and SATA 3G 250gig setup as RAID 1. The fast machine is a simple little compaq mini-desktop with 1.5gigs of RAM and a 200gig IDE.


Thanks,
Ken

[till]

You know that SFTP is not the same then FTP? SFTP has a large encryption overhead, it is basically SSH to transfer files.

For fas FTP, better use a FTP daemon like vsftpd, pureftpd or proftpd.

[KenKnight]

Hi Till,

Thanks, yes I'm well aware of the overhead associated with the encryption, however, what I'm saying is that straight FTP much slower than the SSH/SFTP on the same box while the SSH/SFTP on another box is blows it away.

It's got to be a vmware issue. I will try and post in the vmware forums and see what the "hey" is going on. :)

Thanks,
ken

[falko]

Take a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showpost.php?p=82034&postcount=12

[thanis]

Did you install the VMWare Tools in the virtual machine ? The VM tools add a new ethernet driver to your kernel which has a huge performance increase.
If you already did that, ignore this post and make sure to try Falko's tip :p

Also, are you running bridged or nat networking ? In case of NAT networking, there might be an issue with PASV ftp access throught the virtual ethernet nic !

Kind regards,
Thanis