On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> >> In any case, I'm >> >> getting just under 600KB/s on average with /dev/random. This is on a rather >> >> old machine, so I guess it's not too bad. >> > >> > I am getting 9MB/sec on a zaurus (416 MHz xscale arm). >> >> Just so everyone is on the same page, how are you measuring that? dd >> if=/dev/random of=/dev/null ? > > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null bs=32k >
Random is pretty fast on OpenBSD then. I have a 2010 Macbook Pro with OSX (Lion) which does about 13MB/s. An a much older machine (with a much slower cpu) with OpenBSD which does 65MB/s. -- chs,
