Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:59:40 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRQ entropy causes panics? Message-ID: <199901081159.NAA17887@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:29:17 PST." <19990108002916.A12230@wattres.Watt.COM> References: <19990106003122.A1906@wattres.Watt.COM> <199901080658.IAA17036@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990107231151.A7494@wattres.Watt.COM> <199901080823.KAA17332@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990108002916.A12230@wattres.Watt.COM>
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Steve Watt wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 10:23:02AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > The IRQ that my PPP link is on is often (and is at the moment) high-rate, > for some definition thereof. It's seeing about 800 int/sec, eyeball > averaged. Thank goodness for 16550s; that's a 128k ISDN modem, the > port's running 115.2k. That could cause problems; I'll look into it. > What it sounds like is that I shouldn't use "high rate" (for some > definition thereof -- more than the clock irqs?) things to feed > the entropy pool. That probably ought to be documented somewhere. I'll fix that too :-). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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