slow sparc questions

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Damien Miller wrote:

> > "debug: Sent encrypted session key.".  The pause is for about 10 seconds,
<snip>
> > First, why is this machine SO much slower than my 486?  
> 
> This sounds like DNS problems - the server may be trying to resolve the 
> client's hostname from its IP address? If the client does not have an
> in-addr.arpa address or an entry in the hosts file then this can take
> a while to timeout.

... well, no - not it's not DNS related ... even with the
prior non-OpenSSH, connects with a fully functioning DNS
(forward and reverse) can only be described as 'glacier-like'
in their startup on a Sparc 2 -- I stripped almost ALL
services, spare consoles, turned off the inetd - everything,
and _still_ cannot get reasonable throughput.  I had assumed
that the math processing was not up to par.

I have not recently tried an install of openssh/openssl (I
thought I filed a private bugreport with Damien, but don't
have a copy on the host I am at) -- it died during compile
perhaps 6 months ago -- I'll retry and run some time trials.

-- Russ