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From: darren@Quint.somtel.com (Darren Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: rand_irqs in sysconfig
Date: 27 Mar 1997 15:30:26 GMT
Organization: Maine InternetWorks
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Meant to ask this a while ago but forgot all about it. In the sysconfig
file for 2.1.5R there is a setting for rand_irqs. Comments say that its
for generating entropy in the kernel.
Mine is current let to NO. I havent really noticed any performance
problems anywhere. What will setting this to an appropriate value do for
me?
Thanks.
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Darren Henderson darren@jasper.somtel.com
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