Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.5

[Tom G. Christensen]

On 28/01/14 00:20, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Tom G. Christensen <tgc at jupiterrise.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Could there be some timing/performance issue causing those failures?
>
> It's possible.  We try to not make the tests timing-sensitive where
> possible but some of them are inherently racy.
>
> The slowest machine I've run the tests on is either a 166MHz powerpc
> or a 170 MHz sparc.  On the sparcs at least, building openssl with gcc
> -mv8 or better makes a huge difference because it enables the hardware
> multiply, and DH does a lot of multiplies.
>

Good call.

I rebuilt openssl with sparcv8 on the Solaris 7 host, and now it can 
complete the rekey test.
I guess there is a timeout somewhere that causes the test to fail if it 
takes too long to do the math.
I'm not sure I can get much more performance out of the IRIX 5.3 host, 
so if there is a way to avoid or extend this timeout that would be nice.

-tgc