On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 04:05, Young, Julian wrote:
> I have a SPARCclassic 64Mb running 1.5.2 and the latest ( 1 week old)
> pkgsrc build of openssh.   when I  logon I experience inordinately long
> delays, around 2, 3 minuets,  before getting a prompt.   I get a similar
> delay, possibly longer, when generating keys.
> 
> is this my classic coming to the end of it's usefull life ( performance
> expectd) , or does it sound like I have a config fault ?  Is ther anythign i
> can do to speed things up ( pre generate etc )?

I have noticed the same - but I suspect it could be the "entropy pool"? 
I'm guessing ssh is using /dev/random - maybe there is some way of
convincing it to use /dev/urandom?

Joe.