random(4) confusions

2006-06-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
hi, 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-

Re: random(4) confusions

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Nelson
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.