Re: [net-ftp-common] Net::FTP slow compared to spawning ftp process

[email protected] (Graham Barr) Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:38:47 +0100
Newsgroups perl.libnet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:16:44AM -0500, James D. White wrote:
> Picking the right value for BlockSize is very important.  I have encountered
> an over one order of magnitude difference in transfer rates using different
> values for BlockSize when using Net::FTP.
> 
> I think the default value is 1K. 

The default is 10K, which probably is not the best default size

If someone wants todo some analysis on various machines/networks
then I would gladly change it to something better.

Graham.