SSH Compression
by Peter.
Something I just learned (yeah, yeah): SSH (and SCP and SFTP) can compress the data is sends and received, but it’s NOT enabled by default. You can enable it per call with the -C
flag, or you can just enable it across the board by putting the following in ~/.ssh/config
:
Compression yes CompressionLevel 9
The CompressionLevel
is optional and defaults to 6
. The values range from 1
to 9
, where 1
is the fastest and 9
is the most compressed.