Subject: Re: AMD Geode LX Security Block (was Re: NetBSD on the Soekris net5501 status report)
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-crypto
Date: 06/18/2007 14:23:19
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:56:01AM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On 18-Jun-07, at 8:16 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >I'd suggest correctness verification. ~15GB/s seems to be waaaay  
> >too fast:)
> 
> You're right, the results vary greatly from run to run. I've seen  
> numbers considerably lower than this as well as numbers considerably  
> higher. Not exactly sure why, maybe openssl has the timing wrong --  
> it claims that it's running for 3s on n size blocks, but then later  
> claims that it only ran for a fraction of that period of time, ie:

I suggest running openssl speed with the -multi n option -- try -multi 64
to run 64 tests in parallel.  Because with this option openssl is forced
to count total run time for the child processes it seems to be more accurate.

Thor