Question performnace of SSH v1 vs SSH v2

Christopher Rapier rapier at psc.edu
Wed Mar 2 02:16:18 EST 2005


Rick Jones wrote:
> Gert Doering wrote:
> 
>> If you have parallel streams, this will induce head-of-line blocking
>> (session of one stream sits in the TCP buffer, blocking stuff for
>> other channels).
> 
> 
> How likely is that though? Actually, that question would be both for 
> there being more than one stream muxed over the TCP connection and for 
> one of the streams to fully block the others.

Dunno but it might have an impact on the research that Mike Stevens and 
I are doing. We'll look into it soon. I personally don't think it will 
be a significant issue in most cases (however, I'm known to be mistaken 
on a regular basis :) ).





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