[nycbug-talk] Re: network strangeness (resource starvation?)

[Jed Davis]

Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> writes:

> One of the ongoing symptoms is that ssh sessions to the box will start
> *dropping* characters when udp traffic is really high.  Even after we
> solved the problem of outgrowing the state table, the problem still
> remains.

That's... seriously weird.  Even if the TCP is somehow not working
correctly, SSH has its own cryptographic integrity/authenticity check
on top of that, so characters _really_ shouldn't be getting silently
dropped there.  Maybe the loss is in the tty layer?


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