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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:39:36 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "John W . De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/defaults rc.conf 
Message-ID:  <200010180239.UAA14108@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:36:50 EDT." <20001017223649.A2119@bsdwins.com> 
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In message <20001017223649.A2119@bsdwins.com> "John W . De Boskey" writes:
: ----- Warner Losh's Original Message -----
: > In message <20001017211321.A1847@bsdwins.com> "John W. De Boskey" writes:
: > : I don't believe your system is hung, as much as it is simply
: > : trying to process all the data being redirected to /dev/random.
: > 
: > Correct.  But it is taking an annoyingly long time to do that.  Like
: > an hour or more.
: 
:    I think my patch should help here.

OK.

: > : I have some patches to help speed this up (and possibly remove
: > : some of the directory cat'ing and replacing it with more
: > : variable input).
: >  
: > I've hacked my rc scripts to input less entropy (which is still
: > excruciatingly slow).
: 
:    What speed is your machine. With my patches a 200Mhz PPro
: runs the data in 63 seconds.

P300.  BTW, that's 60 seconds too long to be in the boot sequence.  63
seconds is too long for anything except a fsck on a dirty file system,
imho.

: > 
: > : fyi: try rebooting your system via 'init 6' or 'shutdown -r now'
: > :      which will write the /entropy file, thus avoiding the
: > :      code which is currently giving you problems.
: > 
: > Except when it doesn't, which it usually doesn't.  This is for halt,
: > reboot and C-A-Delete.
: 
:    See pr 14829. We don't have a consistant way to bring the system
: down (and save state for any processes that need it like random
: and nfs). 

Hmmmm.  Bummer.  Guess we'll have to add it then.

Warner


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