[nycbug-talk] HPN-SSH

[Ray Lai]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Peter Wright wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:23:31AM -0700, Peter Wright wrote:
> >> Hi, does anyone have any thought's on this...
> >>
> >> http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/
> >>
> >> basicly it's a patch to openssh to allow tuning of the internal flow
> >> control buffers.  I'm currently googling for comments from openssh
> >> team...
> >
> > It seems to decrease performance on slow networks:
> >
> > 	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=112884429502318
> >
> > -Ray-
> >
> 
> 
> yes it could do that for sure...i am targeting it on 1 and 10 gig-e
> ethernet, and am hoping this will help scp performance.  i guess my
> question is, does this introduce any serious compatibility issues...or
> more importantly has the OpenSSH team spotted any problems with this
> patch?

I've only seen reports of slowness for slower networks; I haven't
seen incompatibility reports, but I don't work on OpenSSH.

Have you tried running with the patch yet?  It might not improve
performance even for 10 gig Ethernet.

Spam the OpenSSH list for more information.

-Ray-