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Subject: Re: very poor cygwin scp performance in some situations
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:59:02 +0100
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Korn"

> On 27 March 2006 16:39, Steven Hartland wrote:
> 
>> I've done quite a bit of digging and not found any real answers
>> on why cygwin's scp performance is so poor.
> 
>  See the thread about "select() too slow" last week for an explanation of the
> Nagle algorithm, how windoze's implementation of it appears to be crippling,
> and how using TCP_NODELAY can fix everything.  (Thread ran from 11 Mar to 19
> Mar). 

As a quick and dirty hack I channed set_nodelay into set_nonblock which
seems to be set on all the sockets but unfortunately it doesn't seem to help.
Anyone more familiar with the internals of openssh know where this might
done?

    Steve


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