title: Is boto slow for large files?
body: <p>I'm doing a few performance tests for uploading large files, on the order to 100MB+.  I've read postings about breaking things up and uploading pieces in parallel, but I'm just trying to figure out how fast a large file can go.</p>
  
  <p>When I do my upload and watch the performance with collectl, second-by-second, I'm never getting over 5MB/sec.  On the other hand if I reduce the filesize to just 50MB I can do uploads at 20MB/sec.</p>
  
  <p>Is there some magic going on that's based on filesize?  is there a way to make my single 100MB file upload faster? What would happen if it were 500MB or even 5G?</p>
  
  <p>hmm, I tried it a number of times and consistently got 5MB/sec and now when I tried it again I got over 15.  Is this because I'm sharing bandwidth?</p>
  
  <p>-mark</p>