The buffer values I've mentioned where just for the SSH packet
payloads, I didn't touch the decompression buffers (just applied your
patch). Regarding the profiler, I'll make some tests this night, I'm not
sure if increasing the LIBSSH2_CHANNEL_WINDOW_DEFAULT value will affect
the performance, but I'll try it too.
Regards,
Ezequiel
El 01/09/2010 03:34 p.m., TJ Saunders escribió:
I've just compiled the "sftp_nonblock.c" example, and tried it with an 80 MB
text file in a remote Linux server. I've commented the line where the output
is printed in the stdout to avoid performance penalties. The problem is that
using the compression flag takes more time that without the using the
compression flag! I've tried several times, and all the tests returned the
same results: about 120 seconds with the compression flag, and about 90
seconds without it.
Can you use profiling, like ltrace or strace or something similar, to get
a better idea of where that extra time is being spent?
I've tried with buffers of 1K, 16K and 32K.
Are these buffers used for the size of the SSH packet payloads, or for the
decompression?
The compression is enabled at the OpenSSH server side, if I try the transfer
with an SFTP client, like the sftp command, then it takes about 10 or 20
seconds.
Another possibility is the size of the channel window that libssh2 uses.
libssh2 has a channel window size of 64K (LIBSSH2_CHANNEL_WINDOW_DEFAULT,
from libssh2.h); OpenSSH (at least looking at the 5.2p1 sources I have
handy) shows a channel window size of 2048K. A smaller window size
results in more back-and-forth traffic; you might try increasing
LIBSSH2_CHANNEL_WINDOW_DEFAULT to see if that affects your tests.
Cheers,
TJ
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