On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Sure we can compare against any other tool, but I think it makes sense to
> make the comparisons against a single tool just to make it easier for
> ourselves. And I would assume openssh to be fine for that, unless it is
> particularly bad or otherwise being naugty or something but I'm not aware of
> anything like that.
Ok, I committed an update to example/simple/sftp_nonblock.c just now that
makes it much more suitable for speed testing SFTP downloads.
My tests from just now show (from 127.0.0.1 where OpenSSH_5.1p1 runs an sftp
server on a Debian system):
libssh2:
Got 1024000 bytes in 9633 ms = 106301.3 bytes/sec spin: 17
openssh:
Got the same file in 1 second at 1MB/sec
Kinda depressing comparison I would say. And this is with a 16K read buffer to
libssh2_sftp_read(), when I tried a 1K buffer I got the transfer take four
times longer! The 'spin' number is the number of times libssh2 returned EAGAIN
during the transfer loop.
So, what's taking all this time?
libssh2:
real 0m10.641s
user 0m0.108s
sys 0m0.108s
vs
openssh: (real slightly longer since it prompted me for key passphrase)
real 0m1.336s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.024s
So I ran the thing with valgrind --tool=callgrind, and I think it is somewhat
interesting:
libssh2_sftp_read() got called 2001 times. Why? 10MB in 16KB chunks should
end up in way way less calls.
I'll look into this issue as my next step.
--
/ daniel.haxx.se
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