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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:36:50 -0400
From:      "John W . De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/defaults rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20001017223649.A2119@bsdwins.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010180225.UAA13973@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:25:26PM -0600
References:  <20001017211321.A1847@bsdwins.com> <200010171731.e9HHVY509578@grimreaper.grondar.za> <200010160445.VAA57829@freefall.freebsd.org> <200010171731.e9HHVY509578@grimreaper.grondar.za> <200010172326.RAA12795@harmony.village.org> <20001017211321.A1847@bsdwins.com> <200010180225.UAA13973@harmony.village.org>

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----- Warner Losh's Original Message -----
> In message <20001017211321.A1847@bsdwins.com> "John W. De Boskey" writes:
> : I don't believe your system is hung, as much as it is simply
> : trying to process all the data being redirected to /dev/random.
> 
> Correct.  But it is taking an annoyingly long time to do that.  Like
> an hour or more.

   I think my patch should help here.
> 
> : I have some patches to help speed this up (and possibly remove
> : some of the directory cat'ing and replacing it with more
> : variable input).
>  
> I've hacked my rc scripts to input less entropy (which is still
> excruciatingly slow).

   What speed is your machine. With my patches a 200Mhz PPro
runs the data in 63 seconds.

> 
> : fyi: try rebooting your system via 'init 6' or 'shutdown -r now'
> :      which will write the /entropy file, thus avoiding the
> :      code which is currently giving you problems.
> 
> Except when it doesn't, which it usually doesn't.  This is for halt,
> reboot and C-A-Delete.

   See pr 14829. We don't have a consistant way to bring the system
down (and save state for any processes that need it like random
and nfs). 

-John

> Warner


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