I'm executing the command to generate a server key according to the RedHat
linux manual, my system is as follows:
Software: Redhat 8.0 all current security updates installed.
The system is a 1.2 GHrt Athalon with 512MB Memory.
[root@base04 root]# rpm --query --all | grep -i openssl
openssl-0.9.6b-29
pyOpenSSL-0.5.0.91-1
openssl-devel-0.9.6b-29
[root@base04 root]# rpm --query --all | grep -i kernel
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9
kernel-source-2.4.18-14
kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0
kernel-2.4.18-14
kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0
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[root@basea1 tmp]#
[root@basea1 tmp]#
[root@basea1 tmp]# nohup time /usr/bin/openssl genrsa -rand /dev/urandom
1024 > /tmp/server.key &
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While the manual says this might take a long time, it has been running all
night, are athalon processors slow? or did I phrase my command incorrectly?
CPU time is being consumed like crazy.
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39 processes: 36 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.1% user, 81.0% system, 18.7% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 255412K av, 196248K used, 59164K free, 0K shrd, 84596K
buff
Swap: 1023616K av, 0K used, 1023616K free 91016K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
12559 root 30 5 800 800 668 R N 99.6 0.3 748:39 openssl
1 root 15 0 476 476 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
. . . Later the same day
[root@base04 root]# top
12:46am up 8 days, 2:34, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.02, 1.01
42 processes: 38 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.0% user, 5.1% system, 2.5% nice, 0.3% idle
Mem: 255412K av, 200188K used, 55224K free, 0K shrd, 90152K
buff
Swap: 1023616K av, 0K used, 1023616K free 89388K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
12559 root 30 5 800 800 668 R N 99.4 0.3 1574m openssl
1 root 15 0 476 476 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd
Thanks in advance for the help.
-Leland
Computer Consultants Consortium Incorporated
