Re: random token re-used in subsequent requests [SOLVED]

On 26.05.2016 16:01, Vincent Veyron wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2016 16:38:18 +0200
> Vincent Veyron <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Out of five different servers, the code works fine on four machines, and a different token is generated every time the page is loaded or re-loaded. On one server however, a previous token is being re-used
>
> Hi,
>
> The faulty server was installed with 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit processor.
>
> I did a clean re-install using 64-bit binaries (debian stable AMD64), and the problem went away.
>
> ab -n 20000 -c 5 "<my test url>"
>
> now generates 20000 unique keys.
>
> Speed also increased from 40 to 70 pages/second
>

Thanks for reporting this.

The above strongly hints at some flaw in the srand() of perl, when called by a 32-bit 
perl, on a 64-bit OS/machine.
In the course of this discussion, I remember citing some article found on the web, which 
was talking about something along those lines (such as the fact that only the lower or 
upper 32 bits were being used or so).
Maybe it is worth passing this info along to the perl (language) developers, at www.perl.org ?