Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:23:27 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I/O or Threading Suffer Message-ID: <200407201223.i6KCNRjo078221@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 2004 05:37:11 MDT." <40FD03E7.8000300@samsco.org>
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Scott Long writes: > If you are dd'ing from /dev/random, then you are depleting the entropy > pool. Anything else that tries to get random numbers is going to block > in strange ways. Trying just dd'ing from /dev/zero and see if that > makes a difference. For current, there is no such thing as "depleting the entropy pool". At worst, this will make the output generator work hard, consuming CPU cycles. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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