[tor-dev] Tor BSD underperformance (was [Tor-BSD] Recognizing Randomness Exhaustion)

Libertas libertas at mykolab.com
Thu Jan 1 21:10:03 UTC 2015


I'm working on question #2 now - I'm less well equipped to work on #1 at
the moment.

It's probably also worth mentioning that the dump with >400,000 calls to
gettimeofday() also had 30,714 calls to clock_gettime().

On 01/01/2015 03:47 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> 
> On Dec 31, 2014 10:38 PM, "Yawning Angel" <yawning at schwanenlied.me
> <mailto:yawning at schwanenlied.me>> wrote:
>>
>>
> 
>>
>> I don't think we merged that branch yet, since it's not ready for
>> general use.  Additionally, it's not currently functional on the
>> *BSDs.  The KIST code last I checked only is used under Linux. 
> 
> This is right; the KIST code is not currently in Tor at all, and the
> patch I wrote is not running on bsd at all.
> 
> Two questions I have:
> 
> Is this behavior a regression against some older tor version?
> 
> What part of tor is accounting for all these time/gettimeofday calls?
> 
> 
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