From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 2 00:31:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29171 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.risc.org (taob@[205.233.216.202]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA29166 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:31:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by alpha.risc.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA01106; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:31:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:31:34 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Mark Murray cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crazy RSA-cracking idea... In-Reply-To: <199703020752.JAA25800@grackle.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Mark Murray wrote: > > The downside of this, though would be all the folks screaming about > how slow FreeBSD was when it was "doing nothing". :-) Ummmm... we hack the way load averages are calculated so it ignores this particular piece of code. :) While we're at it, we'll have the kernel save your uptime to a file on a proper shutdown, to be restored at the next boot. That way you can have a "true" uptime of how long your machine lasts between crashes. ;-) -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"