Otto thanks for the warning. Any details about why it was disabled? Anyhow tomorrow I'll begin further testing but things do look good.
Many thanks all. I was a bit afraid that I hit nasty bug but not sofar. Kind regards, Wessels On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:11:08PM +0200, wessels wrote: > > > Thanks Sime, > > > > yes setting kern.usercrypto=1 did the trick. Apparently in OpenBSD 4.4 > that > > was enabled by default and this was changed in a later release. > > > > # sysctl kern.usercrypto=1 > > kern.usercrypto: 0 -> 1 > > # openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -engine cryptodev > > engine "cryptodev" set. > > Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 162949 aes-128-cbc's in 0.17s > > Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 154781 aes-128-cbc's in 0.17s > > Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 124542 aes-128-cbc's in > 0.13s > > Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 69869 aes-128-cbc's in > 0.10s > > Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 13602 aes-128-cbc's in > 0.04s > > OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012 > > built on: date not available > > options:bn(64,32) rc4(4x,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) > idea(int) > > blowfish(idx) > > compiler: information not available > > The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed. > > type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 > > bytes > > aes-128-cbc 15336.38k 58270.49k 245251.94k 715458.56k > > 2785689.60k > > > > Sometime these things are so simple but the information isn't findable. I > > hope that people stumbling upon this problem as find this thread. > > > > Thanks again, > > > > Wessels > > But check if it really helps in your case, and not just openssl speed > calls. > It was disabled for a reason. > > -Otto
