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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:37:40 -0500
From:      Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20070223113740.4da6e042@daydream.goid.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20070220130051.bfcf6cf2.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:00:51 -0500
Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> wrote:


> Interesting ... I could swear I recently had a problem with /dev/random
> blocking on a 6.X system ...

I have that problem on both FreeBSD and NetBSD.

Sometimes I'll get good speed for awhile (seconds), and then it starts
slowing down or stopping.

/dev/random halts on me all the time.

NetBSD 3.1 on SPARC
FreeBSD 6.1 on SPARC64



-- 
shannon           | There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not
                  | philosophers. 



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