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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2000-07-05 16:39:04 +0000
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2000-07-05 16:39:04 +0000
commit9b2961573a516d124e5621f61cb51e348c080f74 (patch)
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parentd5870bbe237dd755b33625f6d203f30784000ba8 (diff)
Change the FAQ entry a bit, giving the details as I observed them.
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@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ the "PRNG not seeded" error message may occur.
when trying to password-encrypt an RSA key! This is a bug in the
library; try a later version instead.]
+For Solaris 2.6, Tim Nibbe <tnibbe@sprint.net> and others have suggested
+installing the SUNski package from Sun patch 105710-01 (Sparc) which
+adds a /dev/random device and make sure it gets used, usually through
+$RANDFILE. There are probably similar patches for the other Solaris
+versions. However, be warned that /dev/random is usually a blocking
+device, which may have som effects on OpenSSL.
+
* Why does the linker complain about undefined symbols?
@@ -330,9 +337,14 @@ be safely used.
On some Alpha installations running True64 Unix and Compaq C, the compilation
of crypto/sha/sha_dgst.c fails with the message 'Fatal: Insufficient virtual
-memory to continue compilation.' It's currently unknown why this happens,
-except that it has to do with optimization. The very quick solution would
-be to compile everything with -O0 as optimization level, but that's not a very
+memory to continue compilation.' As far as the tests have shown, this is a
+compiler bug. What happens is that it eats up resident memory (not the swap)
+until the current limit is reached and then dies with the error message given
+above. The bug in question is clearly in the optimization code, because if
+one eliminates optimization completely (-O0), the compilation goes through
+(and the compiler consumes about 2MB of resident memory instead of 128MB or
+whatever one's limit is currently). The very quick solution would be to
+compile everything with -O0 as optimization level, but that's not a very
nice thing to do for those who expect to get the best result from OpenSSL.
A bit more complicated solution is the following: