slow directory listing

[zila]

Hi!

I've found that Yummy is extremely slow when download directory listing, on my sites. These are small sites, with a couple hundred files/dirs (drupal). I'm using Intel iMac with 1.5 G RAM, on server side there is proFTPd running, with cyberduck or ncftp the server response is lighnting fast. My YummyFTP version is 1.5.2. Please help! Cyberduck is very unconfortable...

[JD]

Two possible causes:

1. Yummy tries Passive mode first, which fails, Yummy waits for a while then tries Active mode. Try switching to Active mode and see if that makes any difference. (See the Advanced tab of the Bookmark settings for the 'Use passive FTP' checkbox). If this makes no difference, switch back to Passive mode.

2. Your sites have a lot of link files which Yummy tries to resolve before displaying the listing. Try unchecking the 'Resolve symlinks' checkbox in the Server Options tab of the Preferences. If this makes no difference, re-enable the checkbox

If neither of these fix the problem, please send me an FTP Transcript of a listing that takes a long time - select Save FTP Transcript from the File menu and send the resulting file to me: support at yummysoftware dot com

[zila]

Thanks a lot, switch to PASSV mode in Preferences and in Bookmark accordingly, solved the issue.
(In Preferences->Server options this was Autodetect, in the bookmark it was PASSV. I was set both to PASSV)

[JD]

Good to hear it's fixed

Was there any reason you switched to Active mode in the first place? I mean, by default Yummy is set to use Passive mode, so you must have switched it at some point.

[zila]

In preferences it was on Autodetect Active/Passive mode. Maybe after install I played with it... and thought it is comfortable to use autodetect... So, as usual, the error was in the user The interesting part, *sometimes* its worked well with these settings...

[JD]

I see. Well, for what it's worth, I've seen a server which alternates between working with Passive or Active mode at seemingly random intervals - Microsoft's own public FTP server

So, it's possible that your server might do the same. Yummy FTP will of course switch as necessary if the 'Autodetect' option is enabled, but sometimes there can be a significant delay between switches - this is what you've been seeing. To get around that, I suggest reducing the times to the minimum values in the 'Auto-reconnect' pane of the Error Recovery tab in the Preferences.

[Quest]

It might also be in fact that your server is slow and not the FTP client. That it takes a while for it to connect to the server. I know it may sound as an excuse but it might be the case.

[JD]

Good point - something most people do is assume there is a client problem. But in this case the OP stated that connections with cyberduck and ncftp were 'lightening fast', so it was obviously a mis-configuration problem in Yummy.

[zila]

The server wasn't slow. Cyberduck and ncftp worked fine from same machine.

Regards,
Zila