openssh unix dev - May 2006 - "ls -l" command and performance of sftp

Hi all,

I am using OpenSSH4.3p2. User database is stored in LDAP server.When I tried 
to list about 400 files using "ls -l" command in ftp and sftp, I
observed
that sftp took considerable amount of time greater than ftp. I suspect sftp 
does not cache the username and groupname lookups and makes fresh calls to 
getpwuid(), getgrgid() functions for each file that makes its performance 
worse. Any comments ?

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M.P

Hi all,

Patch to cache group and userids is attched along with this mail. The patch 
looks up the cache first before proceeding with getgrgid,getpwuid calls and 
thus reduces the amount of lookups and increases preformance in environments 
such as LDAP database.

--
M.P

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ponraj
To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 10:01 AM
Subject: "ls -l" command and performance of sftp


Hi all,

I am using OpenSSH4.3p2. User database is stored in LDAP server.When I tried 
to list about 400 files using "ls -l" command in ftp and sftp, I
observed
that sftp took considerable amount of time greater than ftp. I suspect sftp 
does not cache the username and groupname lookups and makes fresh calls to 
getpwuid(), getgrgid() functions for each file that makes its performance 
worse. Any comments ?

--
M.P 
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