From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 13:22:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5A837B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from posti.pp.htv.fi (posti.pp.htv.fi [212.90.64.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B55343E65 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:22:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi) Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([212.90.71.47]) by posti.pp.htv.fi (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g98KMLZ09782; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:22:21 +0300 (EETDST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: metis@pop.clinet.fi Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:22:19 +0300 To: "Kevin Oberman" From: Petri Riihikallio Subject: Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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