From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 4 19:21: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 19:21:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E162637B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA68548; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:20:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Peter Jeremy Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... In-Reply-To: <20001201152137.K1474@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2000-Nov-30 21:47:45 -0600, "Michael C . Wu" 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 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 -- So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message