[ale] sshd resource intensive??

[Geoffrey]

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?

I was hoping to use a couple of older boxes as gateways for ssh tunnels..

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft