Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:42:24 +0200 From: "no@spam@mgedv.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: random(4) confusions Message-ID: <000b01c693a6$32b31850$01010101@avalon.lan>
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hi,
if i run man 4 random, i'll get the following:
The kern.random.sys.burst variable instructs the kernel thread that
pro-
cesses the harvest queue to tsleep(9) briefly after that many events
have
been processed. This helps prevent the random device from being so
com-
pute-bound that it takes over all processing ability. A value of 0
(zero) is treated as infinity, and will only allow the kernel to pause
if
the queue is empty. Only values in the range [0..20] are accepted.
if i try to read/set this setting, sysctl returns:
sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.burst'
what's wrong, my kernel or the manpage?
[6.1-RELEASE/i386]
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