scp question

lleb · 10-19-2007, 12:34 PM

when i am using scp to copy a file over it normally will show the upload speeds to look something like:

35KB/s

but today i have been having an issue with uploading a rather large file (200M) and this is what it looks like:

Code:

HP_Installer_OJ4300_6300_v9.5.dmg 69%  139MB -118809.-1KB/s   00:0

what in the world is -118809.-1KB/s mean? does that mean i am sending less then 1K? or does it mean something else?

meetscott · 10-19-2007, 03:06 PM

Umm. Did the file transfer or not?

If it did, I was just thinking that the data type scp is using to hold your network transfer rate is too small. Are you on a really fast network where you might overflow the data type? It looks to me like a two's complement, signed integer over-flowed.

lleb · 10-19-2007, 03:49 PM

semi fast connection. 6000/768 IIRC. it did, but took way longer then it should of for the size of the file.

meetscott · 10-19-2007, 06:53 PM

If it took way longer then it's something else. Sorry, it looked like a signed integer overflow.