From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 18:11:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310FB16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:11:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B9E43D58 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:11:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin02-en2 [10.13.10.147]) id j2TIBG8d015615; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.245] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)j2TIBEgo011495; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:11:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:11:13 -0500 To: Pekka Savola X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache Signal 11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:11:18 -0000 On Mar 29, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Pekka Savola wrote: > - setting up irqs as sources for /dev/random pool, (in my case vmstat > -i shows a lot of activity at 2, 10, 0 and 8, and I used the first two > with rndcontrol and then in rc.conf w/ rand_irqs=) IRQ 0 and 8 are clock interrupts (1/HZ for the scheduler, and a RTC), and IRQ 2 has some odd aggregate or multiplexing function for historical reasons; none of these make a good choice as an entropy source. Using an IRQ for your NIC (10?) and/or an interrupt for your hard drive (14?) are much better. -- -Chuck