[geeks] Network Slowness

[Eric Railine]

On 5/24/07, Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com> wrote:
> > Massive enough to slow a 1000Mbps connection to below 50Mbps?  No way.
>
> Yes way.  That is why there are high-performance-networking patches
> for openssh[0].  It's not network overhead, it's CPU time overhead.

Perhaps on very old hardware, but not on the ones that Sridhar listed
in his first email.  I routinely transfer at 10-11MB/s (on a 100Mbps
network) via SFTP on equipment older than 2 of those he listed.

Eric