Thank you! This is a vast improvement for me. What used to take 75 seconds now takes 2. It still seems to scale with the number of allocations, so I can make it take 20 seconds by doing 10 times the allocations. However, that takes 750 seconds with the old version.
-Greg On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idra...@idrix.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Just in case you still don't have a version of libeay32.dll with the patch, > I'm attaching with this email the one I have just compiled by applying the > suggested patch to the latest snapshot of the 0.9.8 source tree. > > Cheers, > > -- > Mounir IDRASSI > IDRIX > http://www.idrix.fr > > > On 2/13/2010 5:13 PM, gha...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I don't have access to Windows 7 at the moment so I can't test this >>> myself. I've heard that the Windows 7 behaviour is not a bug and the >>> only reason previous versions weren't so slow is that *they* are buggy. >>> >>> I'd suggest you try one workaround mentioned above. Include a time limit >>> on the inner loop. You can do this by duplicating the GetTickCount line. >>> I.e. in rand_win.c at about line 530 you add the line indicated: >>> >>> while (heap_next(&hentry) >>> --------------> && (!good || >>> (GetTickCount()-starttime)<MAXDELAY) >>> && --entrycnt> >>> 0); >>> >>> If that makes the delay more tolerable I'll commit it as a temporary fix >>> for now. Longer term we need to find an alternative technique for >>> additional entropy gathering. >>> >> >> I do not yet have an OpenSSL build environment set up. If you have any >> Windows environment, could you compile a DLL with the change, and I'll >> test it on Windows 7? >> >> -Greg >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >> Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org >> Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >> > > -- > -- > Mounir IDRASSI > IDRIX > http://www.idrix.fr > > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
