in reply to Net::SSH::Perl hangs after 1 hour

so idle timeout is out of the question

How is "idle timeout" determined? The connection is bi-directional, and for both directions there's a sending and a receiving side, so you have four possibilities where a timeout might slam the door.

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Re^2: Net::SSH::Perl hangs after 1 hour
by FloydATC (Deacon) on May 24, 2009 at 05:28 UTC
    I'm sending hundreds, if not thousands of commands per second and processing the results, this is why I consider timeouts a non-issue.