In the last episode (Jun 19), [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net said: > if i run man 4 random, i'll get the following: > > The kern.random.sys.burst variable instructs the kernel thread > that pro- cesses the harvest queue to tsleep(9) briefly after > that many events have been processed. This helps prevent the > random device from being so com- pute-bound that it takes over > all processing ability. A value of 0 (zero) is treated as > infinity, and will only allow the kernel to pause if the queue > is empty. Only values in the range [0..20] are accepted. > > if i try to read/set this setting, sysctl returns: > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.burst' > > what's wrong, my kernel or the manpage? > [6.1-RELEASE/i386]
>From looking at commit logs, the manpage wasn't updated to remove the reference to that sysctl when it was obsoleted: RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/random/randomdev.c,v revision 1.45 date: 2003/11/17 23:02:21; author: markm; state: Exp; lines: +92 -101 Overhaul the entropy device: o There is no need to break up the event harvesting into ${burst} sized chunks, so retire that feature. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"