Re: [Sks-devel] 1.0.5 released

[Yaron M. Minsky]

I guess one thing I haven't emphasized enough is that the subkey update
is indeed quite slow.  It took about a day on my machine.  I should
probably write a faster version, but simply haven't had the time.

One thing to note is that this kind of thing tends to be slower with
fastbuild-built databases than with build-built databases, since the
keys are scattered throughout the database in random order relative to
the hash-order with which one steps through the database.  It's possible
that the default should go from fastbuild to build.  If anyone has any
experience comparing the performance of the two on recent builds, I'd be
interested.  I experimented with it heavily when I wrote that part of
the code, but haven't looked at it a lot since.

y

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 06:47, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:
> > 
> > > I released 1.0.5 onto the savannah site.  I did manage to get support
> > > for revocation keys in at the last minute.  If you're starting a new SKS
> > > server, you should definitely use 1.0.5, since it provides indexing of
> > > subkey keyids.
> > 
> > Will subkey indexing magically work after upgrading, or is more action
> > required?
> 
> Some progress indicator for update_subkeys would have been nice.  It
> seems to take ages :)
> 
> Peter
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