ssh sessions getting "paused" on idle

[Riaan Annandale]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:22:56PM +0100, albi at scii.nl wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:55:53 +0200
> Riaan Annandale <riaana at mundane.co.za> wrote:
> 
> > I ssh to anything over 10 machines at a time and leave the xterms
> > idle. When I come back to a session and press enter / start typing, it
> > takes a few seconds to come alive. Almost as if the connection got
> > canned.
> > 
> > Do you think this could be ipfw related? Or is it a switch that i have
> > to specify somewhere?
> 
> i can only tell you that when i'm using a not so good
> internet-connection my ssh-sessions suffer from that in a similar way as
> you described here, some people told me that ssh can be given highest
> priority with a traffic shaper (i think ipfw can do that too), that
> could solve this problem
Thanks for the answer, I doubt that is the problem though. As I have at
least 3MB links to all these servers (it's on throttled ethernet in our
data centre ;)

> 
> 
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   Riaan Annandale
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