[NCLUG] ssh - very slow to initiate

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake J. Paul Reed:
> 
> For instance, on our central Unix machines at Cal Poly, which run HP-SUX,
> getting a tty through ssh takes a really long time... -v helped with
> debugging that (which is, unfortunately, something that can't be fixed...
> chalk up another win for HP-SUX).

 That's because HP-UX has to go through Washington-D.C.-like amounts of
internal red tape to allow you the use of one of it's precious tty's. That
and check with evey other process on the systems that's running and swapping
to see if it's ok to allocate enough swap for you to even initiate a shell.

 Well, maybe not exactly, but close enough. :-)

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