Re: Security lessons from liblzma

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Security lessons from liblzma
Date: 2024-04-04 22:34:30
Message-ID: 1113736.1712270070@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> writes:
> Okay turns out even generating them in parallel isn't any faster than
> running that sequentially. I guess it's because of the strong random
> generation being the slow part. Command I used was the following and
> took ~5 seconds on my machine:

> make -C src/test/ssl sslfiles-clean && make -C src/test/ssl sslfiles -j20

Just for comparison's sake, this takes about 2 minutes on mamba's
host. Now that's certainly museum-grade hardware, but I don't
think it's even the slowest machine in the buildfarm. On a
Raspberry Pi 4B, it was about 25 seconds.

(I concur with your result that parallelism helps little.)

regards, tom lane

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