Re: [sshfs] SSHFS extremely slow

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> For some reason sshfs is extremely slow. I am using rsync to make a 
> backup. rsyncing directly to the SSH server took 2 minutes. I killed 
> rsyncing to the sshfs mount after 60 minutes because it still had not 
> completed. Rsync seems to get "stuck" all the time and there seems to be 
> an extremely long delay between files (especially small ones).
> 
> Any suggestion on how to improve this? I get this issue on Debian Lenny 
> and Ubuntu Hardy.

Old openssh servers had performance problems.  You could try the
"-oworkaround=nodelaysrv" option, to see if that helps.

Thanks,
Miklos