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

[Phil Schilling]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:55, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:09:01AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 12:30:27AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
<snip>
> 
> >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
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I haven't seen that problem at all with my sparc boxes.  I use two sparc
boxes to do all my work on client systems via ssh with no delay, and
don't remember key generation taking any longer than any of the intel
boxes.

Phil
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