On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:55 PM, James Hozier <guitars...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> From: Paul D. Ouderkirk <p...@ouderkirk.ca> >> Subject: Re: /dev/srandom vs. > /dev/arandom >> To: "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> >> Cc: "James > Hozier" <guitars...@yahoo.com>, misc@openbsd.org >> Date: Tuesday, October 18, > 2011, 5:41 PM >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, >> Theo de Raadt > <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> >> wrote: >> >> In any case, I'm >> >> getting just > under 600KB/s on average with >> /dev/random. This is on a rather >> >> old > machine, so I guess it's not too bad. >> > >> > I am getting 9MB/sec on a zaurus > (416 MHz xscale >> arm). >> >> Just so everyone is on the same page, how are you > measuring >> that? B dd >> if=/dev/random of=/dev/null ? >> >> > >> > If my math is > right, you would see 600KB/sec on a 10 >> MHz Xeon. >> > >> > Yes, I said MHz. >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> ------------------------------ >> Paul D. Ouderkirk >> Senior > UNIX System Administrator >> p...@ouderkirk.ca >> ------------------------------ >> laughing, >> in the mechanism >> -- William Gibson >> >> > > On /dev/null as > opposed to my hard drive, I do get 600MB/s though. > >
Strange...
