Re: two issues: ssh and 2.2.9 kernel

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:

> "Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@tdyc.com> writes:

> > ssh-keygen seems to run like there's no tomorrow....and never
> > get's anywhere.  the .'s just get chuggin away.  I can't connect
> > to another ssh server at all...
> 
> This is an ssh problem, I think, or ssh / libc interaction.  I don't
> think it's 2.2.9 dependant since I get the same behavior on 2.2.5.
> Could you file a bug?
> 
> > now..the 2.2.9 kernel seems to have the same load issue that I
> > experienced with my own compiled version before.  The load average
> > seems to jump through the roof for most applications.  Bring up
> > dselect...get a 2.00 load average, bring up netscape 4-5 load
> > average, etc....

Please try the 2.2.9-2 kernel from potato.  I'm hoping I've found the
problem and fixed it.

> Nope.... this seems to be confirmed by Steve also.  I get it in 2.2.9
> and not 2.2.5.  Do we need to report it upstream to the sparc64 kernel
> folks?

I wouldn't bother yet, it appears to be a problem with the egcs64 compiler
in potato.  (If I alien the latest compiler from RedHat updates and
compile with it, the problem goes away.)

The kernel-image-2.2.9-sun4u_2.2.9-2 package in potato was compiled
with RedHat's egcs64.  I have a newer one from Ben that I will be
testing RSN.  

The egcs64 in slink _might_ be ok.  (There is at least one additional
patch that it should have, but I don't know if this problem is caused
by what the patch fixes.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu