Apache Signal 11

[Charles Swiger]

On Mar 29, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Pekka Savola wrote:
>  - setting up irqs as sources for /dev/random pool, (in my case vmstat 
> -i shows a lot of activity at 2, 10, 0 and 8, and I used the first two 
> with rndcontrol and then in rc.conf w/ rand_irqs=)

IRQ 0 and 8 are clock interrupts (1/HZ for the scheduler, and a RTC), 
and IRQ 2 has some odd aggregate or multiplexing function for 
historical reasons; none of these make a good choice as an entropy 
source.

Using an IRQ for your NIC (10?) and/or an interrupt for your hard drive 
(14?) are much better.

-- 
-Chuck