paramiko hangs on get after ownloading 20 MB of file

Question

I am in need of python sftp client to download files from a sftp server. I started to use Paramiko. Small files in KB works well but however when I try to download 600 MB of

Answer 1

Increasing default_max_packet_size and default_window_size as follows worked for me:

client = paramiko.SSHClient()
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
client.load_system_host_keys()

client.connect(hostname, username=username, password=password, port=port)
tr = client.get_transport()
tr.default_max_packet_size = 100000000
tr.default_window_size = 100000000
sftp = client.open_sftp()
sftp.get(remote_file, local_filepath)

client.close()