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Date:      Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:15:04 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Tomas Svensson <tsn@gbdev.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSH stalls (was: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)
Message-ID:  <20011201101504.B492@tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011201032622.A18737@simba.systemteknik.net>; from tsn@gbdev.net on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:26:22AM %2B0100
References:  <20011201032622.A18737@simba.systemteknik.net>

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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:26:22AM +0100, Tomas Svensson wrote:
> JK> Is this the same problem that I experience on ssh connections between
> JK> my 5.0-current laptop and my releng_4 server?  When I run an 'ls'
> JK> from the shell on large directories I get the response back block
> JK> delay block delay block.  I assumed that it was a problem with
> JK> -current.
>=20
> I am quite sure that this is a problem introduced in OpenSSH v2.5 or
> earlier. When I upgraded a FreeBSD 4.2 box from OpenSSH v2.2.0 to a
> newer version (I don't remember exactly which one now) I noticed this
> stalling which had never appeared before. If I used SSH Inc ssh-2.4
> there was no stalling. It's not FreeBSD-specific either: I am
> trying this now on a NetBSD 1.5.1 that has OpenSSH v2.5.2 and if I
> do ten ls -l as fast as I can,  I get 14 retransmitted packets and
> stalling. If I try the same with SSH Inc ssh-3.0.0 I get no
> retransmitted packets. Strangely enough I get no stalling on either
> sshd if I cat a 3 megabyte text...

Yes you're right.

I reenabled telnetd and the problem doesn't exist there.  It's
definitely an ssh problem.

Joe

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