Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/28/2004 13:01:17
On Sep 28, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> On 28.09.04, 12:03:59, Greg Earle wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> So, for ssh logins, 180MHz HyperSPARC is slower than 75MHz
> SuperSPARC-II? Hard to believe, but I really can login in <12
> seconds.

I said "roughly" - that's the result of a "/usr/bin/time slogin ... "
and, once I get logged in, wait for the shell, then type "exit"
to get back to the originating host.  Maybe you're measuring
how long it takes to get the SSH login prompt, or to get the
shell prompt ... I'm measuring end-to-end.

	- Greg