Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:06:40AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:31:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:59, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Obviously it depends on your expectations. Since I'm not making
> > > thousands of SSH connections per second, I don't need a CPU-optimised
> > > SSH binary, for example.
> >
> > If you transfer gigabyte files via SCP then an optimised ssh binary
> > would be a handy thing to have.
>
> I don't believe that transfer will be CPU bound, but rather network and/or
> internal bus bandwidth limited.
It is not unusual for large scp jobs to be CPU bound when slow-to-modest
systems are connected to fast networks.
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- mdz
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