SFTP and outstanding requests

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Chris Rapier wrote:

> 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.

Not that I am aware of. The current value is fairly arbitrary and was based
IIRC on a value that produced a good transfer speed between a host in
Melbourne and one in Singapore.

The default could easily be cranked up or down if you can present some
evidence to justify it.

-d