From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 23 16:53:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E5A16A40B for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:53:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF8F13C4A5 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:53:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from [69.72.100.1] (helo=escape.goid.lan) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1HKdIx-0003Dc-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:29:55 -0500 Received: from daydream.goid.lan (IDENT:1000@daydream.goid.lan [192.168.1.10]) by escape.goid.lan (8.13.5.20060614/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l1NGbfJf001964 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:37:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:37:40 -0500 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070223113740.4da6e042@daydream.goid.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070220130051.bfcf6cf2.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <45D9FD35.6040702@vwsoft.com> <20070219195143.GA42379@xor.obsecurity.org> <45DA121E.1040803@vwsoft.com> <20070220091238.c04cfceb.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20070220165012.GB75535@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070220130051.bfcf6cf2.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Organization: Big Endian X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:53:56 -0000 On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:00:51 -0500 Bill Moran 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.