[darcs-users] Performance, SSH vs Samba

[Grant Husbands]

Hi,

I'm seeing a marked performance difference between using a mapped drive 
(remotely mounted via samba) and using ssh (to the same machine) for my 
source darcs repositories. For example, a pull, when there are 25 
patches to pull, takes about three seconds to start asking questions, 
through the mapped drive, or 57 seconds via SSH. Even when there are no 
patches to pull or push, the operation takes 1 second through the mapped 
drive and 28 seconds via SSH.

Does anyone else see similar performance figures or is this likely just 
a peculiarity of the machine to which I'm connecting?  Is there any easy 
way to speed up SSH access?

Thanks,
Grant.