On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > Is urandom nonblocking?
The OS provided random devices need to be secure and so they depend on collecting "entropy" from the system so the random values are truely random. They also execute complex code to produce the random numbers. As a result, both of the random device interfaces are much slower than a disk drive. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
