Re: [suse-sparc] Install fine but now boot hang.

From: Lamar Owen (lamar.owen@wgcr.org)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 11:38:09 PST

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    From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
    Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:38:09 -0500
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Install fine but now boot hang.
    

    On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:36 am, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
    > On Sat, Jan 19, Duane C. Mallory wrote:
    > > it gets to the point where it displays status as it boots, and the last
    > > line it displays is "Generating dsa public/private key. At this point it
    > > just sits there - the machine apparently is not locked because I can

    > > Anyone seen this behavior before? Any suggestions?

    > Yes, wait 2 hours. It needs some time to generate the keys.

    You know, this is one thing that really bothers me about the SPARC port.
    Just why is key gen so slow on the SPARC? This isn't isolated to the initial
    keygen -- each and every ssh connection takes several tens of seconds to
    start up on my Ultra 5/10/30's on 100Mb Ethernet connections. Once started,
    throughput on scp is 2.5-3MBytes per second, which is not too bad. But the
    startup is pretty slow.

    The Ultra 10 I have, with an UltraSPARC IIi 360, took ten minutes to do the
    dsa keygen on the first reboot -- yet an Intel Celeron 400 takes maybe 60
    seconds. The Ultra 30's, with 248MHz CPU's, took a little longer. What's up
    with that?

    -- 
    Lamar Owen
    WGCR Internet Radio
    1 Peter 4:11
    

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