OpenSSH 4.7: call for testing.

chris rapier rapier at psc.edu
Thu Aug 16 23:04:58 EST 2007



Iain Morgan wrote:

> We've been using the patch that Markus originally posted on this
> list back in 2005 on a number of systems for over a year and have
> not observed any issues with interactive sessions. Admittedly,
> that patch set the channel buffer to 1.25 MB rather than 2MB.

Well, I don't think it will be a problem for most people but the problem 
may impact reponsiveness for some people on dial up or other slow 
connection types. That and increased host memory usage. Overall I think 
its a positive development for bulk data transfers on mid range 
commodity networks.



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