How to improve performance

Question

Hi,
We are using edtFTPj/Free, and wondering what are our options for improving performance. Currently in one transfer, we want to transfer files that total about 24GB, and it takes 8 minutes to do the transfer. Some options I thought of:
1) Upgrade to edtFTPj/Pro, and use asynchronous methods. http://enterprisedt.com/products/edtftp ... thods.html. This will essentially implements multi-threading for us, even though our code does not have multi-threads
2) Upgrade to edtFTPj/Pro, and try the MODE Z data compression (if my FTP server supports it). http://enterprisedt.com/products/edtftp ... ssion.html
3) In our code, compress the files into a single zip before transferring
4) Does it help to add a CPU core to our virtual machine that's running our code?
5) Any other options?

There's a page in the manual on 'how to make transfers faster', but it's blank: http://enterprisedt.com/products/edtftp ... aster.html. What are the contents on this page?

Thank you
E

Answer 1

24 GB in 8 minutes is roughly 400 Mbs, so that seems pretty fast. How fast is Filezilla in comparison?

1) If you have multiple transfers, it may help to use edtFTPj/PRO's connection pool and asynchronous methods to do simultaneous transfers - best to download the trial and test.

2) MODE Z is much faster if you are transferring uncompressed text files, but won't make much difference for files that are already compressed.

3) A good option if you are transferring many smaller files.

4) It depends if your process is cpu-bound or io-bound. Use some monitoring tools to see how much cpu is being used.

I've fixed the blank page - thanks for letting us know.

Answer 2

Thank you so much for your quick response and for fixing the help page. It's very helpful. I've passed the info onto our team and will do a few tests as suggested first.

Thanks,
E