SV: [Opendnssec-develop] SoftHSM - Signing speed

[Roy Arends]

"Rickard Bondesson" <Rickard.Bondesson at iis.se> wrote on 12/12/2008 
11:46:13 AM:

> It is on a 4 core 64 bit Sun OS machine.
> 
> With SoftHSM:
> 
> RSA1024 key:
> ./hsm-speed -s 1 -p apaapa123 -f 3 -t 4 -i 100000 081212083059184661
> 2052.76 sig/s
> 
> RSA2048 key:
> ./hsm-speed -s 1 -p apaapa123 -f 3 -t 4 -i 20000 081212093603519314
> 386.54 sig/s
> 
> With 64-bit OpenSSL:
> 
> openssl speed rsa1024 -multi 4: 8239.2 sig/s
> openssl speed rsa2048 -multi 4: 1368.9 sig/s
> 
> With 32-bit OpenSSL:
> 
> openssl speed rsa1024 -multi 4: 1301.8 sig/s
> openssl speed rsa2048 -multi 4: 238.1 sig/s

Rickard, the -multi 4 does not really relate to 4 cpu's (though the 
documentation tells you differently). It basically spawns four processes 
of the openssl speed application (like the '-f' in hsm-speed). You might 
want to play with that value. Also, you need to use '-elapsed' as well, to 
get a better estimate.

Thanks,

Regards,

Roy Arends
Sr. Researcher
Nominet UK