11.10.10, 15:13, "Claudio Jeker" <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:16:19PM +0200, Martin Pelikan wrote: > > 2010/10/11, Claudio Jeker : > > > CPU consumed by the kernel is not accounted by the scheduler. All the > > > work done by urandom is system time. > > > > And for the curious people who can't see the obvious: why is that? > > > > Because that's the way Unix and in particular BSD and its scheduler were > built. The kernel is assumed to be efficent and never doing lot of > computation. With the addition of crypto in the kernel this may no longer > be true but it does not affect normal operation. In other words nobody > ever bothered to fix this. In FreeBSD and Mac OS X run "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null" not change read speed from disk... Is in OpenBSD lacks developers? -- Dmitry Telegin
