Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:20:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012041919420.68514-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20001201152137.K1474@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2000-Nov-30 21:47:45 -0600, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:29:15AM +1100, Peter Jeremy scribbled:
> >| On 2000-Nov-14 15:08:06 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> >| >Has anybody run a 486 or 386 under current recently ?
> >|
> >| X on a PRE_SMPNG 486 is painful - mouse movements no longer make
> >| the X pointer move in real time. I haven't noticed the seeding
> >| issue (probably just luck).
> >
> >PRE_SMPNG does not have the /dev/random seeding issue.
> >
> >You actually expected X to run well on a 486? :-)
>
> It used to run reasonably well (ignoring hogs like Netscape) before
> Yarrow was added.
Have you tried updating to the latest -Current? All aspects of the
entropy harvesting have changed significantly since PRE_SMPNG.
Doug
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