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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance 
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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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