> [meiling...@emc.com - Wed Dec 26 21:07:57 2012]: > > Hi Openssl team, > I have an performance issue with openssl_fips. > My application use openssl_fips version 0.9.8. > Recently, I found that the fips lib make my application slow. > When my application initialize the fips setting, it introduces 7000+ > getpid() call. > And this will cost 5 seconds. > > Is this an real issue? > Looking forward to your reply. > Thanks. > > > The call trace is as followed: > Breakpoint 1, 0x7af3a278 in getpid+0 () from /usr/lib/libc.2 > #0 0x7af3a278 in getpid+0 () from /usr/lib/libc.2 > #1 0x7a41c454 in CRYPTO_thread_id+0x24 () from libcrypto.sl.0.9.8 > #2 0x7a40bbd8 in FIPS_mode_set+0xf0 () from libcrypto.sl.0.9.8 > #3 0x2695f8 in main+0x168 () >
These all go through a user settable callback which defaults to getpid() on most platforms. You can supply a more efficient equivalent in an application. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
