Re: potential bug when creating ssh keypairs?
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:37:58AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: i put forward a message on this before, but i received no replies. i wanted to know if this was a bug and where to report it. whenever, and only when, i try to create an ssh keypair, the system reboots. this happens 4/5 times. if someone can help me out on this, i'd appreciate it. I think it may have been reported by others if it was, but you can of course submit a PR I guess. 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 [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: potential bug when creating ssh keypairs?
Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
