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. > > Hooboy. > > 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. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://tupytaj.pl
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