Optimize for system responsiveness

justSteve · Post by **justSteve** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:36 am

Greetings...new to the apps and have some initial questions...

Is there something that should be done to optimize system responsiveness? I'm connecting to a remote host (DSL on my end - Co-located IIS box with high-speed pipes on the other end) where other FTP operations typically max out my DSL's limit 1.5mg. With FtpVC i'm seeing bandwidth spiking to an occasional 72Kb but nothing approaching my remote server's real speed. Stub files are uploading at very, very low speed.

Opening this project or moving from one dir to another is likewise, very slow.

I'm dealing with lots (160+) of fairly small ASCII based files and have added that extension to settings without obvious effect.

Post by **psguru** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:19 pm

I'm afraid that this is the price that you pay for using the FTP protocol, which imposes some overhead for each file that is transferred. Since stub files are small, the overhead may actually be larger that the transmission itself. A fair comparison here would be with a common FTP client, such as FileZilla, tasked with transferring a lot of small files.