OpenSSL RSA benchmarks on various Dell computers

Dell Optiplex G1 running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1

> openssl speed rsa



OpenSSL 0.9.7c 30 Sep 2003

built on: Mon Dec  1 12:36:46 PST 2003

options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(idx) 

compiler: cc

available timing options: USE_TOD HZ=128 [sysconf value]

timing function used: getrusage

                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s

rsa  512 bits   0.0067s   0.0006s    148.4   1597.5

rsa 1024 bits   0.0369s   0.0019s     27.1    513.2

rsa 2048 bits   0.2294s   0.0064s      4.4    155.8

rsa 4096 bits   1.5034s   0.0225s      0.7     44.4

Dell Optiplex GX200 running Red Hat Linux 9 (kernel 2.4.20-8)

OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

built on: Thu Sep 25 08:00:15 EDT 2003

options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) blow

fish(idx) 

compiler: gcc -fPIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLF

CN_H -DKRB5_MIT -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DOPENSSL_NO_MDC2 -DOPENSSL_NO_RC5 -DOPENSSL_N

O_EC -I/usr/kerberos/include -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -Wall -O2 -g -pipe -march=i686 

-DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM

available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value]

timing function used: times

                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s

rsa  512 bits   0.0016s   0.0001s    619.1   6917.8

rsa 1024 bits   0.0078s   0.0004s    128.8   2474.7

rsa 2048 bits   0.0447s   0.0013s     22.4    756.1

rsa 4096 bits   0.3053s   0.0046s      3.3    218.4

Dell PowerEdge 1550 running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1

OpenSSL 0.9.7c 30 Sep 2003

built on: Thu Dec  4 13:09:53 PST 2003

options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(idx) 

compiler: cc

available timing options: USE_TOD HZ=128 [sysconf value]

timing function used: getrusage

                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s

rsa  512 bits   0.0027s   0.0003s    372.9   3988.2

rsa 1024 bits   0.0147s   0.0008s     68.0   1297.5

rsa 2048 bits   0.0910s   0.0026s     11.0    389.6

rsa 4096 bits   0.6017s   0.0090s      1.7    111.2

Dell PowerEdge 1550 running Red Hat Linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4.20-20.7)

OpenSSL 0.9.6 24 Sep 2000

built on: Wed Sep 24 13:42:00 EDT 2003

options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) blowfish(idx) 

compiler: gcc -fPIC -DTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DNO_ASM -DNO_IDEA -DNO_MDC2 -DNO_RC5 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall

                  sign    verify    sign/s verify/s

rsa  512 bits   0.0031s   0.0003s    324.0   3601.4

rsa 1024 bits   0.0180s   0.0010s     55.5   1048.6

rsa 2048 bits   0.1168s   0.0033s      8.6    299.0

rsa 4096 bits   0.7885s   0.0121s      1.3     82.5

Exim queue wizardry

To clean out all the frozen mail ...


exim -bpru | grep frozen | cut -c11-26 | xargs exim -Mrm

Credit: Suresh on NANOG (but modified a bit as awk was not happy)