Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:50:47 +0000 From: Mark Robert Vaughan Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsdonline <lists2@freebsdonline.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random_harvestq eats much on geode-lx alix2c3 Message-ID: <BB7B730E-BCCB-43B0-9DC7-B9AB8CA83F56@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <528C95D4.4090806@freebsdonline.com> References: <4041856.BpQXZdSKfK@aurora> <C33F6708-0FA5-4AC3-90BD-807B27FE264C@FreeBSD.org> <1995425.XJjfe8p5PP@aurora> <528C95D4.4090806@freebsdonline.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 20 Nov 2013, at 10:58, freebsdonline <lists2@freebsdonline.com> wrote: > Stanisław Halik wrote: >> but what do you ask for? Also, can text >> attachments be put here? For posterity's sake, better not to link to them. > It is poor hardware as you said but FreeBSD should run well on it. I also have Alix boards running FreeBSD as router, and cpu load is almost 0. The entropy-harvesting stuff needs to be adaptable to slow and fast. On an old box, one which would work well as a small gateway/firewall, aggressive harvesting may (does!) slow down the OS. On a multiple-CPU grunt-grade server, that may not be enough, and we may be scrambling for more. M -- Mark R V Murray [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBUo3JZ958vKOKE6LNAQp/QQQAhtmQKBxEakalIOucsWLWKRdpQ9A9iJAa Tajxaoa3xCRZSIBY9I+QmpqLWVzyul0KColg1J8FJWN4NBp7aGWsirjG7ehSoAUs cAuHcAeKPRw7aCBuBN8+u9ufx20F95LslHOxW9UDlIHsN0f54CNg08rzFC9/XHlG Q/MnhsvU05U= =soBa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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