rand_harvestq high cpu usage when /dev/urandom is used

Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 20 11:54:11 UTC 2018



On 2018-Aug-20, at 4:27 AM, Ali Abdallah <aliovx at gmail.com> wrote:

> . . .
> Also, I read on
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-November/046683.html
> someone saying that sysctls to turn off harvesting is documented in
> random(6) 


It says random(4), so:

<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports>.

> . . .

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