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Date:      Tue, 4 Oct 2016 09:02:09 +0300
From:      Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        jmg@funkthat.com
Subject:   Re: Strange issue with scp performance
Message-ID:  <57F345E1.3050902@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <57F2072B.6000403@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
References:  <57EB9AC8.3050102@matrix.gatewaynet.com> <20161001005558.GB1751@funkthat.com> <57F2072B.6000403@matrix.gatewaynet.com>

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Hello Julian,
(pls include me in your To/Cc pls)

 > of course we just removed the HPN option for FreebSD's ssh/scpwhat version are you using?

I am using OpenSSH_6.6.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1p-freebsd 9 Jul 2015 on 10.2-RELEASE-p7 . I read the news about dropping the HPN patch.
Recently we had experienced low scp performance between a new (modern) linux host we cloned to some cloud provider and a local quite old linux machine. I noticed that I had the same low performance 
between the new remote linux and my FreeBSD box, so I tried to address this.
However no matter the HPN tuning, on this particular connection (about 100ms latency), the bhyve Ubuntu is *always* faster than its host (my FreeBSD box), so I guess the benefit from HPN would be 
marginal anyway.

On 03/10/2016 10:22, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> On 01/10/2016 03:55, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> Achilleas Mantzios wrote this message on Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 13:26 +0300:
>>> We have a weird situation here. We just made a clone of a virtual image running Linux and sent it over to some could provider. The problem is that the scp performance to *many* hosts in our office
>>> center has worsened considerably, including one freebsd box.
>>>
>>> In this freebsd box I run also a jail, and a linux ubuntu image with bhyve. The crazy thing here is that :
>>>
>>> 1) scp from the original (local office center) linux image to the host FreeBSD, its jailed FreeBSD and its bhyve linux is 2.7 MB/s
>>> 2) scp from the cloud linux image to the host FreeBSD is slow (~300KB/s)
>>> 3) scp from the cloud linux image to the above FreeBSD's jail is slow(~300KB/s)
>>> 4) scp from the cloud linux image to the above FreeBSD's bhyve ubuntu is fast(~1->1.5MB/s)
>>>
>>> What can cause this behavior?
>>>
>>> PS
>>> Please answer to me directly as I am not subscribed to -net.
>>> Thanks a lot for any ideas.
>> I worked on this last year a bit, but was never able to track it down.
>>
>> It may be an issue w/ internal SSH's buffering not growing properly to
>> handle the latency.
>>
>> I posted some info on the wiki about this:
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SSHPerf
>
> Thanks tons!
> In this case of mine, just playing around with HPN:
>
> HPNDisabled no
> HPNBufferSize 8192
>
> in sshd_config was enough to bring it on par with linux.
>
>>
>
>


-- 
Achilleas Mantzios
IT DEV Lead
IT DEPT
Dynacom Tankers Mgmt




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