Re: Sftp: performance enhancing changes

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:56:27AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Joseph Galbraith <galb%vandyke.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> >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.

No.  The consensus of the SFTP perf thread was, IIRC, that there is no
handbrake in either SSHv2 or SFTP and that clients and servers should be
smart about using larger windows for the SFTP sub-system.

Nico