SSH from my Mac is very slow

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

SSH from my Mac is very slow, but scp works fast.

Chances are that X forwarding is not set up properly and you are waiting for it to time out.
Either use the -x option to start ssh without X forwarding, or try to enable X authentication by saying the following on the Mac:

 xauth generate :0 .

Also see this blog entry on mactip.blogspot.com

SSH from my Mac is very slow

Navigation menu

Search