12 Dec
2008
12 Dec
'08
12:15 p.m.
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Steve Snyder wrote:
On my CentOS v5.2 server (dual Pentium4) the OpenSSH daemon stands out as being the most CPU-intensive of the applications running, It's used 176 minutes of CPU time in the last 2 days alone.
Putting 176 cpu-minutes in context, that's 3% of your available cpu-time. What exactly is the problem here?
/Peter
Is there any way to lower the CPU utilization without compromising security? (I.e. without using a less processor-intensive encrypt/decrypt algorithm?)
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