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To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance 
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In-Reply-To: <3AAC8942.DB660B2C@FreeBSD.org> ; from Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>  "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:30:58 +0200."
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:59:43 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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> In addition to reported earlier general machine slowdown with
> interrupt harvesting is turning on, ethernet entropy harvesting
> seriously hammers network performance as well. Ftping big file over my
> 10M network now about 15% slower with ethernet harvesting turning on.

Even with the Rijndael code and kern.random.sys.burst=$SMALLNUMBER ??

> Mark, please get slow machine (say 100MHz or slower) and test you
> fu^H^Hboring harvester on it before committing anything. The whole
> devrandom affair gone too far and shown exactly how things should not
> be developed in FreeBSD.

I've done this.

M
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Mark Murray
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