Damon McMahon <damon.mcmahon@gmail.com> writes:

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> Also, while top(1) shows that the CPU is 95% idle the ssh terminal
> seems very sluggish when the ral(4) connection is maxed out, even
> when it's another host that's maxing it out (i.e. not the host on
> which the ssh client is operating).

It's sort of a known problem I'm afraid. it sounds like you're stuck
on a suboptimal mode, and ral doesn't really know how to fix
that. It's under CAVEATS at the end of the ral(4) man page.

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