Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie> wrote:

>> Is anyone else running OpenSSH on their 68k?

>  I have run it, and in the meantime replaced it with ssh-1.2.27.

>  The reason was that every invocation of ssh/sshd froze my machine
>  for about 25 seconds, which is not acceptable. Why, I do not know,
>  but ssh-1.2.27 doesn't do that. It is possibly a problem with the
>  version of openssl in the ports tree and may disappear with a newer
>  version. NetBSD-1.4.2 is causing huge performance problems on my
>  machine, but in this case the culprit was clearly openss{h,l} ...

Some AmigaOS ports of OpenSSL suffer(ed) from excessive CPU usage as
well and solved it by disabling DSA support. My NetBSD/m68k box is in
pieces right now so I can't verify whether this also goes for the NetBSD
port, but it's something you could check out.