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Subject: Re: rand_harvestq high cpu usage when /dev/urandom is used
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On 2018-Aug-20, at 4:27 AM, Ali Abdallah <aliovx at gmail.com> wrote:

> . . .
> Also, I read on
> =
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-November/046683.h=
tml
> someone saying that sysctls to turn off harvesting is documented in
> random(6)=20


It says random(4), so:

=
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Drandom&sektion=3D4&manpath=3D=
freebsd-release-ports>.

> . . .

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
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