Question performnace of SSH v1 vs SSH v2

[Michael A Stevens]

There is also another subtle issue of how often should the window be 
polled. Polling the tcp window on a WINDOW_ADJUST message could prove to 
be costly if they happen very often.


Mike

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Christopher Rapier wrote:

> Markus Friedl wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:09:34PM -0500, Michael A Stevens wrote:
>> 
>>> Its somewhat more complicated than this. The correct solution is to 
>>> scale the SSH window to a value that matches the window of the protocol 
>>> encapsulating the SSH data.
>> 
>> 
>> it's simple to change this hardcoded application window
>> to match the tcp send/receive window.
>
> It is pretty trivial, making it work with Web100/autotuning kernels is not as 
> trivial but not overly daunting either. It was all included in a patch we 
> submitted to the openssh-unix-dev list last June. We've been continuing work 
> on it and other network performance issues since.
>
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