From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 7 14: 5: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB54637B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f27M4TN76099; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:04:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200103072204.f27M4TN76099@earth.backplane.com> To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: harvest_interrupt=YES slows down machine References: <200103071909.f27J9tp71792@earth.backplane.com> <200103071926.f27JQbR60731@gratis.grondar.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message