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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:09:59 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance
Message-ID:  <3AAC9266.1CBB23E9@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3AAC8942.DB660B2C@FreeBSD.org> <200103120858.f2C8wkf88680@gratis.grondar.za>

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Mark Murray wrote:

> > In addition to reported earlier general machine slowdown with
> > interrupt harvesting is turning on, ethernet entropy harvesting
> > seriously hammers network performance as well. Ftping big file over my
> > 10M network now about 15% slower with ethernet harvesting turning on.
>
> Even with the Rijndael code and kern.random.sys.burst=$SMALLNUMBER ??

I've not tried Rijndael code yet, do you think that it could make a noticeable
difference? As for kern.random.sys.burst=$SMALLNUMBER I think that it is your
task to tune defaults in such a way that it would not disturb even low-profile
users (i.e. would not cause any measureable performance degradation). Tuning
defaults with power users in mind is extremly bad idea - we are not an OS with
mininal configuration PIII-500/128MB.

-Maxim


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