OT Linux (RE: [rescue] OT: Stuffed Proliant?)

Sat Dec 22 12:59:43 CST 2001

On 22 Dec 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> From my personal experience, SPARCs suck at SSH.  OpenBSD on my SS2 took
> a couple of hours to generate a DSA key, and on my 486-50, it took like
> 5 minutes.  The SS2 has 64MB of ram, while the 486 had 16MB.  It seems
> to take quite a bit longer to initiate connections to SPARC machines
> than it does x86 machines using ssh, and the machines aren't heavily
> loaded.  Not sure what that means, exactly...
> 	Greg

Part of that is sparcs being slower at the bit rotates, however, it is
also being very hurt by being lightly loaded.  OpenSSH will block if there
is not enough entropy in /dev/random.   So, if the server was more
heavily used, you'd get in quicker...

--Kurt