From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 5:35:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E98B37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:35:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D82243FBF for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:35:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1QDZirX011321; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:35:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E5CC2B0.9020708@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:35:44 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: potential bug when creating ssh keypairs? References: <20030226110258.2823.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Neophyte wrote: > --- Cliff Sarginson 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