RedHat Linux - ssh - screen display problem

kejoseph_at_hotmail.com
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: 27 Apr 2005 16:32:16 -0700

I have installed RHEL 3 on a Compaq Server with 4 CPUs and 4GB RAM. My
problem is that commands like tar and unzip take forever. After a log
of troubleshooting I found out that the problem is with ssh and not
with tar or unzip. It seems as if the screen takes forever to dislpay
the contents being pushed out by the server. When I perform a "ls -ltRa
/" it goes on forever.

To ensure I am on the right track I installed a telnet server and
retried the above commands - they completed in record time !!

Has anyone come across this problem and knows of a solution.

PS : I am using WinPutty to access the Linux box.

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
# uname -r
2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp
# rpm -qa | egrep "tar|unzip"
setarch-1.3-1
star-1.5a08-4
unzip-5.50-34
tar-1.13.25-13

# rpm -qa | grep -i ssh
openssh-3.6.1p2-33.30.3
openssh-server-3.6.1p2-33.30.3
openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-33.30.3

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain some_domain.net
search some_domain.net
nameserver some_ip
nameserver some_ip

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