[ale] sshd resource intensive??

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Sat, 15 May 2004, Geoffrey wrote:

> I have never put any thought to how resource intensive scp might be. 
> Until now.  I was setting up a couple of boxes and testing file transfer 
> rates.  I've noted that for a couple of older boxes (p200 and PII 350) 
> it's much slower.  I then fired up top while the transfer was going 
> along and noted sshd taking up quite a bit of cpu.
> 
> Is this other's experiences as well, or am I missing something?

-c blowfish

(default 3des is much slower than blowfish)

later,
chris