Bug 26937

Summary:	reuse SSH connections
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Genady Beryozkin <eclipse>
Component:	Team	Assignee:	Boris Shingarov <bshingar>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	brian.larson, eclipse, ian, sven.koehler
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	performance
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Genady Beryozkin

2002-11-22 08:49:40 EST

eclipse now opens SSH connection for every tiny CVS operation.
For example, in the "synchronize with repository" view, when I click on a file
to compare it with the repository versions, up to 4 ssh connections are opened.
(I have a personal firewall that tells me such details).
Of course, when I select a different file, I get another 4 new ssh connections 
open and close.

This a huge waste of time and of CPU resources both on the client and the 
server. Setting up SSH connection performs Diffie Hellman each time, and it is 
time consuming operation.

I suggest you investigate the possibility to keep one open ssh connection and 
reuse it when possible.

Comment 1 Boris Shingarov

2002-11-26 13:53:38 EST

Support for this will be in the SSH2 plugin that is currenty being dveloped.

Comment 2 Stephen Gevers

2003-03-21 14:34:52 EST

The company I work for uses SecureID.  The reporter was only concerned about
resources.  However, If your password changes every time you connect to a
machine using ssh (as with SecureID), then multiple ssh connections means
multiple dialog boxes requesting passwords.  Reusing the ssh connection would
prevent this.  I'm very interested such functionality.

Comment 3 Boris Shingarov

2003-03-21 14:50:19 EST

Stephen,

Support for reusing ssh connections *will* be in the ssh2 connection method 
when it becomes available.

Unfortunately, with the ssh1 implementation such reuse is not possible, so you 
will have to wait for ssh2.

Comment 4 Brian Larson

2003-04-14 12:14:02 EDT

For what release is SSH2 planned?  I can't find any reference to it in the 
plans I've looked at.

Comment 5 Sven Köhler

2003-05-04 11:01:42 EDT

there is a ssh2 plugin at http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-cvsssh2/ which solves
this "bug".

Comment 6 Michael Valenta

2003-05-06 09:18:18 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25238 ***