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Re: bandwidth by user or process id


From: Gert Doering <gert () greenie muc de>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:41:52 +0200

hi,

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 01:29:58AM -0700, Patrick Kurz wrote:
Let's say 10 users transfer large amounts of data through ssh at the same time. 
I assume in this situation 10 different processes would share the same socket, 

They won't.  This (normally) only happens for server processes where 
there is a central server that accepts a given connection, and then
forks a child to handle this connection (sharing the file descriptor
for a moment).

gert
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