Especially on the cluster. I've noticed this on a couple of ssh installs I've run into over the last few years. Some SSHD's just plain are poky. I just republished this blog by way of SFTP, as a way to clean up some template changes on the archived pages. And it took 17 minutes to get all the stuff down. That's 450-odd files, and 6.6MB of data. Pathetic transfer rate, but I suspect part of that is due to file-open/file-close operations.
Performance of that caliber I've seen on some Linux/Solaris boxes, so this isn't limited to NetWare.
Performance of that caliber I've seen on some Linux/Solaris boxes, so this isn't limited to NetWare.