SFTP and outstanding requests

Chris Rapier rapier at psc.edu
Thu Apr 26 02:15:54 EST 2007


Quick note of clarification. I know you can change this from the command 
line with -R. Mostly I'm just wondering if there are situations where 
increasing it might cause problems.

Chris Rapier wrote:
> I've been looking at the SFTP code and the filexfer RFC (and ended up 
> answering my prior questions). I was wondering if anyone had any 
> thoughts as to what might happen if the maximum number of outstanding 
> requests was increased.
> 
> Currently its set in sftp.c at
> /* Number of concurrent outstanding requests */
> size_t num_requests = 16;
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