[Help-gnutls] Re: gnutls_handshake() is slow and is a big lock

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Sat 29 Jul 2006 14:17, Eric Leblond wrote:
> Le samedi 29 juillet 2006 à 14:03 +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos a
>
> écrit :
> > On Sat 29 Jul 2006 13:50, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > > > And do you think that gnutls_handshake() can be used in two
> > > > different threads at the same time?
> > >
> > > If you use different gnutls_session objects in each thread, I
> > > think this should work.  But I haven't tested it.  Maybe you need
> > > extra copies of other structures too, used by the gnutls_session.
> >
> > Yes, if a gnutls_session object is only accessed by a single thread
> > it works (of course the locks for libgcrypt need to be set up). The
> > hydra web server (http://hydra.hellug.gr) uses gnutls and works
> > pretty much ok.
>
> Our test have shown that this work well in streaming mode but not
> during handshake.

Do you change the credential structures during handshakes? They have to
be initialized and stay fixed during any handshakes.