slow speed copying many small files

clark · Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

While copying files larger than 1 MB over a VPN tunnel to a target directory on an XP machine with VV Pro installed, I'm seeing 150 + KB/sec transfer rate. When thousands of files all less than 5 KB are copied, I'm only seeing a 2 B/sec rate. (2 B/sec....not a mistype) I can copy the small files using the native windows copy with a realistic speed. Has anyone seen this before?

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8691

If you time Windows Explorer vs ViceVersa , is Windows Explorer much faster copying the small files (e.g. 100 of them)? thanks
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clark · Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

using windows I copied 568 files at (30,748 bytes) in 10 minutes....size on disk (9,306,112 bytes) next using windows I also copied 21 files at (9,643,780 bytes) in 3 minutes......size on disk (9,879,552 bytes)

I guess if I look at it in terms of sectors it's not so ugly, although there is still a difference based on the number of files copied.

So to work around my problem, if I install VVPro on my source, is it possible to compress prior to copying to the target without altering the files in the source directory?

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8691