Nate Lawson wrote:
> > > Every time machine is under heavy load (CPU, network, disks) it
> > > completely jamms for fraction of a second for every ten seconds or so,
> > > everything just stops and then continues. I noticed this while compiling
> > > software and copying files over NFS while listening to MP3's, later
> > > realized it wasn't just MP3's that lagged, but the whole machine,
> > > including console and everything.
> >
> > If you lean on the keyboard, or if you set up the network adapters
> > as "entropy" sources, does the problem fix itself?
> 
> This can't be it since /dev/random is non-blocking in 5.x

See other posting; though I could certainly write an app that
would keep hitting /dev/random until it got what it wanted...


-- Terry

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