SFTP and outstanding requests

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, 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;

I'm not sure what you are asking. Obviously, increasing this will cause
more requests to be made before waiting for the first request ACK.

You can change this from the commandline with the -R flag.

-d