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> Also, we didn't really test where are those random bits coming from :P
> Is the TRNG used by default, or some tinkering's in order to make  
> it work?

Well, sysctl kern.random says:

~% sysctl kern.random
sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random'

and according to a previous post this means that it's in use

> BTW... `ubench`? :)

here are two runs, neither in single-user mode but the system should  
have been idle:

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #10: Tue Oct 10  
20:06:09 PDT 2006     root@hostname:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL i386
Ubench CPU:    38798
Ubench MEM:    45654
--------------------
Ubench AVG:    42226

Ubench CPU:    38869
Ubench MEM:    46149
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Ubench AVG:    42509