--s9fJI615cBHmzTOP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:07:34PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > Ben Laurie writes: > > I notice that events are also discarded when the queue reaches a > > certain length. This seems like a problem, too. >=20 > Hooboy. >=20 > Please go back and read this whole thread from the beginning. Attempting > to mitigate the inevitable effects of filling the harvest queue is the > main thrust of what I'm trying to solve. Why can't we split harvesting entropy from /dev/random from harvesting entropy from sources that are much more performance-sensitive? Currently random_harvest_internal() is used for both and it is trying to be fast, as we don't want to slow down the caller. But with /dev/random the caller won't mind to be slowed down. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://tupytaj.pl --s9fJI615cBHmzTOP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBXhWQACgkQForvXbEpPzQXBACeNR34XWWNDyiIC7zQOTRG+Jls 6F4AoKJoicNLfngTkhnyuY48kZgvx8PZ =t/C8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s9fJI615cBHmzTOP--