Re: Trying NetBSD 9.1 on KA650 and VAXstation 3100m38

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz%physik.fu-berlin.de@localhost>]

Hi!

On 11/16/20 2:08 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2020-11-16 03:54, Boris Gjenero wrote:
>> The password algorithm is mostly to blame for how slow logins are when a password
>> is set. Take a look at https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-9.1/vax/passwd.conf.5 . In the
>> 9.1 /etc/passwd.conf, it's set to sha1, and the default is 24680 rounds, which is
>> slow. Changing it to old speeds up logins. But of course other things are still slow.
> 
> The slowness I observe is absurd, and is clearly not at all related to any passwords.

I'm not experienced with cross-compiling the BSD kernel, but wouldn't it be possible
to bisect this problem that way? At least that's what I do with the Linux kernel
in such cases.

Adrian

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