Slow SSH or SCP transfer performance

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Issue

  • I have a 10Gbps ethernet connection but SCP only transfers at 50-250Mb/s instead of 1Gb/s.
  • SSH transfer performance is not near 1G or 10G line speed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • File transfers over SSH or SCP

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