Re: FYI: Using subversion under FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 11:05 pm, Barry Pederson wrote:

> Maybe you should try using the FreeBSD "rndcontrol" program to help
> /dev/random come up with data more quickly.
>
> In my case, I looked at dmesg to find that my Ethernet card used IRQ 10,
> and then created this script as /etc/rc.local:
>
> ---------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> #
> # Give /dev/random something to chew on, otherwise subversion chokes
> # when trying to commit
> #
> rndcontrol -s 10
> ---------

Better (at least on recent versions of FreeBSD; I don't know whether
this has always been there) is to add

    rnd_irqs="10"

to /etc/rc.conf .

-- 
Gareth McCaughan
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