AW: Dropbear - Cygwin - Performance

[Michael Wiedmann]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:18, Stuart Longland wrote:
> 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.

I'd say that one call to fork() is neglectable. 
The real problem is the network performance during
file transfer through the tunnel.

Michael