[rescue] Re: intel vs. sun- for real

[nick at snowman.net]

My first suggestion is either get off SSH (because that alone takes alot
of cpu cycles) or at least force it to blowfish (-c blowfish IIRC, depends
on your ver of ssh, not all support blowfish) as it's much faster than the
default algs.
	Nick

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 s at avoidant.org wrote:
> We're currently doing tar over ssh, then gzip -9. The longest a single 
> drive takes is around 6 hours, but there're over 4000 9 and 18G drives 
> being backed up. The backup machines do NOTHING but this, but they're 
> overloaded, even at P-III/750 and a Gig of RAM.
> ---sambo
> gratyeful for all the advice