Best utilizing fat long pipes and large file transfer

Fri Jun 13 00:20:35 UTC 2008

Karl Auerbach wrote:
> Randy Bush wrote:
>> and for those of us who are addicted to simple rsync, or whatever over
>> ssh, you should be aware of the really bad openssh windowing issue.
> I was not aware of this.  Do you have a pointer to a description?

see the work by rapier and stevens at psc

    <http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/>

this is why rsync starts off at a blazing pace and then takes a serious
dive.

randuy