On Sep 27, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Holger Weiss wrote:
> * Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com> [2004-09-27 19:19]:
>> My SPARCclassic is my firewall/DNS. My SS5 build packages for the
>> 'classic. I just wish ssh was quicker on the SPARCs.
>
> Have you tried recompiling OpenSSH/OpenSSL with "-mcpu=v8" on the SS5?
> SSH 2 logins are _way_ faster when using v8 code on sun4m machines. On
> sun4c, I'd use SSH 1.

I just rebuilt libssl/libcrypto/openssl/sshd with CPPFLAGS set to
"-mcpu=v8" in the environment on my SS20 with a 180 MHz Ross HyperSPARC,
and my login time to "slogin" into the machine dropped from (roughly)
22.76 seconds down to 13.88 seconds.  That's roughly a 40% speed
improvement.  I'd rebuild the whole world if I could get that across
the board  ;-)

	- Greg