Dropbear - Cygwin - Performance

[Stuart Longland]

Hi,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:59:26AM +0100, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> The same setup but the server is a Cygwin/dropbear combination I
> experience 
> huge performance degradation (at least tenfold, even more).

I wonder if this could be due to some Cygwin quirk?  I know for a fact
that fork() is quite an expensive operation in Cygwin (no
copy-on-write), and I hear its threadding support is somewhat primitive.

Maybe that's part of the problem faced?
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