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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:09:49 -0500
From:      Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To:        'Sean Chittenden' <seanc@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: sysctl -a loops forever...
Message-ID:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337010231A2@mail.sandvine.com>

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From: Sean Chittenden [mailto:seanc@FreeBSD.org]
> 
> Anyone seen sysctl -a loop forever?  I haven't been able to track down
> the MIB that it's gettinng hung up on, but it looks like there's a
> flaw in the algo that is walking through the MIBs.  Given that this
> halts the machine while trying to collect entropy (sysctl -a is used
> to help feed /dev/random) at system start up, I think it's something
> worth addressing or pointing out.  -sc

I've observed this when e.g. I had too many nmbclusters configured,
ie when vm.kvm_free was too low (0 in my case :)

--don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com)

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