Subject: RE: ssh soo.......Slooooow
To: 'Joachim Thiemann' <joachim@tsp.ece.mcgill.ca>
From: Young, Julian <Julian.Young@nl.compuware.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/19/2002 14:33:39
I dont know these exact diferance between the two devices but deleting one
can copying/linking the other should solve that one, asuming they are
compatable , of which i have no idea 

or am i missing soemthing hear


"J"

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joachim Thiemann [mailto:joachim@tsp.ece.mcgill.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 2:28 PM
To: NetBSD Port-SPARC Mailing List
Subject: Re: ssh soo.......Slooooow


On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 04:05, Young, Julian wrote:
> I have a SPARCclassic 64Mb running 1.5.2 and the latest ( 1 week old)
> pkgsrc build of openssh.   when I  logon I experience inordinately long
> delays, around 2, 3 minuets,  before getting a prompt.   I get a similar
> delay, possibly longer, when generating keys.
> 
> is this my classic coming to the end of it's usefull life ( performance
> expectd) , or does it sound like I have a config fault ?  Is ther anythign
i
> can do to speed things up ( pre generate etc )?

I have noticed the same - but I suspect it could be the "entropy pool"? 
I'm guessing ssh is using /dev/random - maybe there is some way of
convincing it to use /dev/urandom?

Joe.





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