From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 18:51:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12E837B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.100.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7298443E88 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAM2paG74223 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:51:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <200211220251.gAM2paG74223@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/random Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:51:36 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am the one who asked the question about /dev/random earlier today. I don't know if answers are appropriate on this list, but here is what I found out: The /dev/random device was working but exceedingly slowly because I was using the wrong IRQ's. That was partly due to the fact that all of the FreeBSD systems I am trying to enable /dev/random on have been up from between 168 to 183 days and every single one had lost all the dmesg data from their buffers. I decided to see if there were any files on the system whose creation time coincided with the last time it was booted. That search lead me to /var/dmesg.boot. Alleluia! I used the IRQ for the SCSI disk controller, the CDROM IDE controller and the Ethernet adapters. I now seem to have a steady flow of entropy events. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message