[erlang-questions] bcrypt message queues

[Richard Jonas]

I load tested with a vm (so the numbers are not relevant but the ratios).
Oliver's fork spawns as many bcrypt_port (as a pool of ports) as many
schedulers we have. Makes sense. The chef/erlang-bcrypt can spawn as many
as we want (pool_size config key).

I used round = 12, which took 42,000-60,000ms if we spawned 100 of workers
on a single core (ok, bad idea, but load testing is such).
With round = 4, it took 400-2100ms (median is 700ms) with the same number
of workers.

@Sverker: 1 password from shell took 5ms to hash.

If I have time and possibility I embed bcrypt library into basho bench, and
load test bcrypt that way. Because right now I load test it via cowboy rest
api. So with round 4 we can say that other components will be the
bottleneck, not the bcrypt.


On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Sverker Eriksson <
sverker.eriksson@REDACTED> wrote:

> How heavy duty is this bcrypt?
> Does it take milliseconds to hash one little password?
>
> /Sverker
>
>
> On 05/30/2016 04:38 PM, Richard Jonas wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> we are implementing user registration and password checking functionality
> and using bcrypt for password hashing. During registration and also during
> login we need to compute the hashes of the passwords. The problem is that
> bcrypt is serializing requests even when I choose nif or port mechanism.
> https://github.com/chef/erlang-bcrypt
>
> With nif a message queue is instantly built when multiple users log in
> (compute hashes for match password). With a pool size+port implementation,
> the message queue building has just deferred a bit.
>
> Is there any alternative to creating bcrypt-like hashes? For me it seems
> that this library cannot be scaled well. Or have I missed something?
>
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