I've not heard of anything using that one (cryptlib).  The mid 90's web
page also scares me a lot :)

There would be other variables in play too though, SSH is a lot happier
with Control Persist enabled in many cases -- which is not the default
behavior if just invoking SSH in the basic way (we use CP by default).

--Michael


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:23 PM, CS <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's great, will definitely try it out! ;-)
>
> On a related SSH performance note, in a past project I found that
> Cryptlib's SSH performance had significantly better IO rates than the
> OpenSSH client. I never tracked down why that was the case, but as I recall
> it was something like 30-50% faster.
> https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/
>
>
>
>   On Saturday, January 4, 2014 11:02 AM, Michael DeHaan <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> The "ssh_alt" connection type as implemented by Jerome Wagner greatly
> reduces the amount of operations performed over connections by not
> transferring modules as files for many cases.  It's pretty impressive.
>
> It can currently be tested on the development branch with "connection:
> ssh_alt" in a play, or "-c ssh_alt".
>
> I would like this to become the default in Ansible devel, to be released
> as the default in 1.5, in the next week or two.
>
> As such, if everyone using the SSH transport (aka anyone not running from
> RHEL/CentOS/EPEL
> and still using paramiko), as they normally use Ansible, this will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> I just recently merged in some tweaks to sudo password detection.
>
> If we can get it past encountering any problems, we'll remove the old
> ssh.py and replace ssh_alt.py as ssh.py, and there will be no more
> connection named "ssh_alt".
>
> Thank you!
>
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