From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 11 3:41:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 03:41:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08A637B69B for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:41:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEC66E251B for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA14078; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:30:57 +1100 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:32:23 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Doug Barton , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... In-Reply-To: <20001211071659.E69646@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 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