Re: [libssh2] daily snapshots

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mononen Jussi wrote:

> I've discussed this with Sara long time ago and she agreed that an
> asynchronous transfer would be a better choice, performance wise

Eh, how exactly would that be better ? And if so, how would that work?

> Also the current synchronous transfer is extremely inefficient because
> everything is read in in 16 (!) byte blocks. The block size should be at
> least 16 kilobytes.

Indeed!

> Current libssh2 implementation is almost 70-80% 50% slower than OpenSSH
> command line sftp/scp. When the block size is increased to 16kb, the
> performance is appr. 33% better, but libssh2 is still roughly 50% slower
> than its command line counterparts due to the synchronised approach.

Again, what is synchronised that shouldn't? Please forgive me if this is
obvious, but I'm somewhat of a SSH internals newbie.

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Received on 2006-11-15