Re: Sftp: performance enhancing changes

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost>]

> >o Ignoring channel window makes for a screaming
> >  sftp transfer. (unacceptable, breaks multiplexing.)
> 
> It's only unacceptable if you're actually doing multiplexing.  If you're just
> using SFTP as a secure FTP replacement (which is what many people seem to be
> using it for), it's a simple, quick fix for the SFTP performance problems.

My understanding based on reading the earlier discussion is that this
is a red herring -- the fix (which doesn't involve violating the
specs) is to pipeline read/write requests and ensure the channel
window is substantially larger than the TCP window).



					- Bill