Any idea why SCP from a pipeline is shockingly slow?

[Robert_Goldsmith]

We have a 'staging' pipeline step that takes an artefact from a previous step, scp's it to our staging server and then runs a remote script via ssh to unpack it and configure it for staging. The tgz file being scp'd is about 40mb is size.

Sometimes (rarely) the scp takes about 3 seconds. Most usually it is taking over 10 minutes. Does anyone have any thoughts on why or had similar experiences?

[aroddis]

I have the same problem, still no response? o_O

[cleaver-consulting]

+1 SCP command is taking forever to complete. Somethings changed or is being throttled because we never used to have this issue. Anybody find a solution?

[tomolas]

+1 same problem

[creativelink]

+1 same sh*t. SCP command is hanging about 20-30 minutes (!)