Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:22:19 +0300 From: Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool Message-ID: <a05111b04b9c8ed7056e2@[192.168.0.2]> In-Reply-To: <bulk.34460.20021008114858@hub.freebsd.org> References: <bulk.34460.20021008114858@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Use vmstat -i to get a list of interrupt sources on your system and >use rndcontrol to add them to the entropy engine. This is very interesting. I have just guessed my entropy interrupts. Thanks for the tip! ># vmstat -i >interrupt total rate >ata0 irq14 3240348 10 >ata1 irq15 4 0 >mux irq11 1342389 4 >pcm0 irq10 3401 0 >fdc0 irq6 2 0 >atkbd0 irq1 58469 0 >psm0 irq12 872780 2 >sio0 irq4 441098 1 >clk irq0 31225225 99 >rtc irq8 39970907 128 >Total 77154623 247 ... but what does the 'mux' stand for? My laptop shows it, too. From the context I guess it is network activity, but there is no such device or kernel option. The NICs don't show up as themselves. man vmstat didn't tell. -- Cheers, Petri Metis / Petri Riihikallio GSM: +358 400 505 939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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