Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:35:44 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: potential bug when creating ssh keypairs? Message-ID: <3E5CC2B0.9020708@potentialtech.com> References: <20030226110258.2823.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bsd Neophyte wrote: > --- Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> wrote: > >>One thing to note is that the generation of this key is an extremely >>CPU intensive operation. That may imply something..(too overclocked a >>CPU..?). >> >>-- >>Regards >> Cliff Sarginson >> The Netherlands > > > hmmm... but would this tax a 633mhz cel w/512mb ram to where it would > reboot? the CPU is running normal... no overclocking involved. Yes. If your processor is improperly cooled, or your processor, RAM, or motherboard components are buggy, it will cause a crash every single time. It's very common to have buggy hardware that only "seems" to crash under a certain program. The keygen process is very math-intensive, it may overwork math parts of the processor that normally don't get worked out, and those may be the only parts of the processor that are buggy. I would recommend installing memtest and cpuburn from the ports and see if running those applications according to their instructions leads you to any more conclusions. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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