From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 21 08:50:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B693FC1; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gromit.grondar.org (grandfather.grondar.org [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c20:0:2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE23321B7; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [2001:470:9174:1:905e:886e:eefc:105a] by gromit.grondar.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1VjPyL-000KbT-IE; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:50:52 +0000 Subject: Re: random_harvestq eats much on geode-lx alix2c3 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.0 \(1822\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_5B16EB49-595C-4F22-9974-D9F60FD43B4C"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 From: Mark Robert Vaughan Murray In-Reply-To: <528C95D4.4090806@freebsdonline.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:50:47 +0000 Message-Id: References: <4041856.BpQXZdSKfK@aurora> <1995425.XJjfe8p5PP@aurora> <528C95D4.4090806@freebsdonline.com> To: freebsdonline X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1822) X-SA-Score: -1.0 Cc: current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:50:54 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_5B16EB49-595C-4F22-9974-D9F60FD43B4C Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 On 20 Nov 2013, at 10:58, freebsdonline = wrote: > Stanis=C5=82aw 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 --=20 Mark R V Murray --Apple-Mail=_5B16EB49-595C-4F22-9974-D9F60FD43B4C Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----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----- --Apple-Mail=_5B16EB49-595C-4F22-9974-D9F60FD43B4C--