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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:04:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: harvest_interrupt=YES slows down machine 
Message-ID:  <200103072204.f27M4TN76099@earth.backplane.com>
References:  <200103071909.f27J9tp71792@earth.backplane.com>  <200103071926.f27JQbR60731@gratis.grondar.za>

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:Hmm. Sounds doable. I'll play.
:
:>     A 1/10 second sleep and a ring limit of 32 still gives you an effective
:>     320 seeds per second.  Still overkill, but at least not  the massive
:>     overkill that its doing now.
:
:Event != seed.  I'll juggle numbers and see if I can come up with any
:tweakables (sysctl's) that could give users more control here.
:
:Thanks!
:
:M
:-- 
:Mark Murray

    That would be cool, thanks!  If the interrupt-based random seed stuff
    can be made really low profile, I think it will make a great addition to
    the system.

					-Matt


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