- setting up irqs as sources for /dev/random pool, (in my case vmstat -i shows a lot of activity at 2, 10, 0 and 8, and I used the first two with rndcontrol and then in rc.conf w/ rand_irqs=)
IRQ 0 and 8 are clock interrupts (1/HZ for the scheduler, and a RTC), and IRQ 2 has some odd aggregate or multiplexing function for historical reasons; none of these make a good choice as an entropy source.
Using an IRQ for your NIC (10?) and/or an interrupt for your hard drive (14?) are much better.
-- -Chuck
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