Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:32:23 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012112126450.2890-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20001211071659.E69646@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I upgraded to -current as of last Friday (this took most of the > weekend on my 486DX2-50, so I didn't do much experimenting). The > entropy seeding during startup takes a couple of seconds - not a > problem. I crashed -current a few times recently, and entropy seeding during startup took several minutes of leaning on the space bar. This was initially with a week old kernel and finally with a current kernel and a broken ps. Apparently there isn't a enough entropy unless ps produces a normal amount. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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