Re: Bug in scp v3.0.1

[Brad Arlt <arlt () cpsc ucalgary ca>]

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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