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SSH and SFTP transfers are slow

Last Updated: 6/8/11

When sshd looks to be the culprit, my troubleshooting begins by launching it in foreground mode on a non-standard port on the server:

sshd -ddd -p 2222

you may need to use a full path like:
/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd -p 2222

Then connect your SFTP or SSH client to port 2222 and see if the problem still happens.



Keywords: ssh slow, sftp slow, linux, centos, ftp transer stops or halts, bandwidth low