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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 04:00:10 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103130357490.719-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103120858.f2C8wkf88680@gratis.grondar.za>

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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Mark Murray wrote:

> > 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 ??

Rijndael stops it showing up much in top -S.  I'm wondering where it is
hiding :-).  kern.random.sys.burst=$SMALLNUMBER had very little effect.

Bruce


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