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Re: Call for TESTING (was Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so)


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
What's still not clear is why the ssh process takes so much CPU.

Too many buffer copies? It takes a surprising amount of CPU power to fill a gigabit pipe from userland. Double or triple that workload with unnecessary copies, and there goes your transfer rate, evaporating on the wind.


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