svn commit: r238118 - head/lib/libc/gen

[Colin Percival]

On 07/04/12 13:45, Attilio Rao wrote:
> I recall that at some point /dev/random was introducing some
> scalability penalty on php [...]

... thus reinforcing the stereotype that PHP Does Stuff Wrong.

Userland processes should get entropy from the kernel *once* at launch
time and place it into an entropy pool which is *occasionally* reseeded
later.  If even a very slow /dev/random becomes a scalability problem,
an application is doing something very very wrong.

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Colin Percival
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