Re: Bug in scp v3.0.1

From: Brad Arlt (arltat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 12:42:18 PST

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    On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:18:47AM -0500, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
    > I was scp'ing a 2MB file to my home computer over a DSL line and just
    > happened to run top at the same time.  I immediately noticed this line:
    > 
    > 13864 root       1  30    0 2884K 1744K run     0:38 42.00% sshd2
    > 
    > It appears that scp'ing a file over a slow connection causes the process to
    > suck up a huge number of resources.  There's most likely no usleep()
    > somewhere it's needed.  A couple scp's over slow connections could severely
    > degrade the boxes performance.
    > 
    > This test was performed on a Solaris 8_x86 machine.
    
    If you are refering to SSH Communication Security Inc's SSH2 v3.0.1,
    this is a known bug, and they are working on the fix.
    
    It affects all server implimentations (UNIX and Windows).  For
    a list of all the known bugs check out:
    
    http://www.ssh.com/faq/index.cfm?category=129
    
    I get 99% utilization on a fast link (Cable modem, and 10/100/1000Mb
    Ethernet.
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