Total Commander

G'day gents.

I'm a big fan of TC, using it all the time. Bought it too.

One area, I think, which could use a bit of tweaking is the FTP.

FTP wasn't a forte of TC, but it was OK.
However, I've installed a new system recently, and realised that in the new TC the ftp handling seems to have slowed down.

Even just building a connection seems to happen noticeably slower.

TC used to be very handy to quickly connect and upload/download a couple of files. I'm usually using FileZilla to download larger amounts.

Now, I've compared operation times to FileZilla, and there's significant differences.

(This is just to show that it could be improved a lot.)

Connection;
TC: 10s
FileZilla: 2s
(measured from the initiation of connection - the "click" - to the point where I have the file list ready. Done repeatedly.)

Directory Change;
TC: 3s
FileZilla: .5s (practically instant)


I don't mind the single-threaded download-upload too much; although the old TC used to lose connection on large number of files, regularly, for some reason and there was no way to restart from the point of loss; this is something which could be improved as well. (disregard if it has been fixed already ).

But I've stopped using it for many files for this reason, mostly. Then I've realised that fileZilla's multi-threaded upload/download is way faster anyway.

Look, I know this is not an FTP app, primarily, so I'm just mentioning these things on the side.

However, the connection/operation speeds with FTP are extremely sluggish at the moment. I'd really love to see an improvement there.

Yours truly
Steve

P.S.

I don't know if it helps; system specs:
I'm using an i7 920 @4GHz, 6GB RAM, win7 x64.
Connection is an ADSL2, the servers are pretty much local (within 100Kms)

Hello ysu,
For those of us who do not experience sluggishness, Wireshark logs for connections of both TC and Filezilla would be helpful, if you're willing.

Roman

Try to turn off logging. Some virus scanners can considerably slow down ftp because the entire ftp log file is scanned on every write operation...

ghisler(Author) wrote:Try to turn off logging. Some virus scanners can considerably slow down ftp because the entire ftp log file is scanned on every write operation...

Either that or exclude the ftp log from being scanned.

2ysu,

With the setup you have, it should be way faster. I am on an old P4 2.8 GHZ single core processor and my FTP times are what your FileZilla times are reporting. FTP has always been fast for me. SFTP is a little slower, but that is to be expected with all the authentication it has to do.