From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 0:42: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-67.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784B137B401 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:42:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3B78066B32; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:42:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:42:02 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: John Indra Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is -CURRENT in bad shape? Message-ID: <20010212004201.A27121@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010212132036.A58094@office.naver.co.id> <20010211223956.X3274@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010212135748.A9535@office.naver.co.id> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010212135748.A9535@office.naver.co.id>; from john@office.naver.co.id on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:57:49PM +0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:57:49PM +0700, John Indra wrote: > BTW, today I saw post from John Baldwin to remove device random from the > kernel config. Then, other post replied that this is a good thing, mpg123 > playing went a lot better for him, well at least, that's what he said. >=20 > If this is so, then why is there a device random line in GENERIC kernel? > Do we really need device random? Only if you use things like SSH, SSL, or other cryptographic utilities/protocols :-) Mark committed patches last night which reduce the impact the random device has on the system, and it will probably get better over time with other commits. Kris --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6h6HZWry0BWjoQKURAtqIAKDsI5OKSuItnAnKz1ppWQFu5Gzu6QCfedkw 6tMpOIgikBCOYihJi8u+EEU= =XIB+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message