save-entropy never exits

[Giovanni P. Tirloni]

Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   save-entropy never exists and eats all CPU.
> 
> # uname -a
>  FreeBSD srv-01 5.3-STABLE-SNAP001 FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE-SNAP001 #0: Sun 
> Jan 30 03:57:47 UTC 2005 
> root at opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> 
>  # ps axl |grep entropy
>     2 14833 14832   0   8  0  1640  928 wait   Is    ??    0:00.03 
> /bin/sh -c /usr/libexec/save-entropy
>     2 14834 14833 263 128  0  1680  980 -      R     ??  1884:17.36 
> /bin/sh /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> 
> 
>  # uptime
> 11:56AM  up 5 days, 19:14, 1 user, load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

[...]

  Sorry about replying to myself. I ran save-entropy by hand and it 
exits normally. This machine was running 5.2.1-RELEASE and had the same 
problem. I always had to kill it. I think it must be something related 
to the hardware but I'm not sure.

-- 
Giovanni