On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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...
In fact, it's non-blocking AND never returns a 0 byte read len when its entropy is depleted. Try cat /dev/random (I am not saying this behavior is good, just that it is.) -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
