On Wed, Jun 30, 2010, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010, Ger Hobbelt wrote: > > > :-( I hope I recall correctly that what I mention next is indeed stuff > > happening in RAND_screen()... IIRC RAND_screen() isn't 'only' reading the > > screen but also doing a system-level heap traversal and a few other things > > and it was exactly that system-level heap traversal that slowed a few > > spurious Win boxes down to a snail's pace, so my take is it doing that to > > yours too. > > Just a correction. RAND_screen() doesn't perform those other activities such > as heap walking, those happen during the automatic entropy gather on Windows. > There are known issues with Windows 7 and some 64 bit versions of Windows two. >
Ooops, I should check the code before making statements like that... bugger. RAND_screen() used to just add the screen. It now also does the auto PRNG seeding via RAND_poll() as well, though that also happens automatically too. 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 User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
