vsftpd - problems with text-file transfer

[0p3r4]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem that i just can't fix.

I have a FC4-box running vsftpd and i'm connecting to this server from a WinXP-box using Filezilla. My problem is this: When sending files like .exe, .rar, .avi, etc, etc i have a great upload speed, however, when i'm tryng to send text-files like .txt, .php, .html, and such it takes forever... i also get a delay in commands likte DELE and such some times..

This is driving me crazy, i've been googling the crap out of it without a solution as well as scanning trough the vsftpd-website for vsftpd.conf-lines that i might have missed.

I have also tried to edit the conf-file to use certain high ports and granting these ports access trough the firewall without a result, except getting another ftp-client to list the contained files correctly.

I would GREATLY appreciate any feedback i might get on this issue

[dcherry]

Are you using binary mode? If not, maybe the delay is because the CRLFs at the end of lines are being converted to LFs.

[sej7278]

vsftpd doesn't actually have an ascii mode, it just fakes it in binary mode.

i don't know if this would be the problem with slow text files, in theory they should be faster as they would compress better than binary files (assuming ftp compresses text files like modems do).

also, lots of little files would be slower to read/write on the filesystem than large files - i'm assuming your binary files are larger and fewer than your text files.

i've transferred about 11gb of various files - iso's, .exe's, text etc. over vsftpd on my lan today, and i've seen pretty big variations - from a minimum speed of about 30mbps to a max of about 105mbps.

a solution might be to tar+bzip2 your text files into one big binary file......

[0p3r4]

I have addeded the lines ascii_upload/download_enable=YES without any improvement.

I myself have been using the solution sej mentioned with sending archived files, however, the "ordinary" user don't have access to a shell and therefore won't be able to extract them.

[smfinley]

See the FTP server section here.

[0p3r4]

i think i solved the problem, i had set up the ftpd to use a min and max port for passive connection, however, i had managed to make the min port a lesser number then the maximum port, after changing this, this seems to work alot better ... clumsy of me