Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Bridge performance take II

Daniel Eriksson wrote:

>Robert Watson wrote:
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>>If you're not already disabling harvesting of entropy on interrupts and
>>in network processing, you really want to for performance purposes.
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>How do I disable this without causing entropy starvation for "typical" use
>cases (ssl? ssh?)? I googled a bit and found nothing at all about how to
>disable excessive harvesting.
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># sysctl -a | grep harvest
>kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1
>kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1
>kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1
>kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 0
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>These are the knobs I know about. Is it enough to turn
>kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet and kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt to 0,
>or are there other things I need to do too?
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>/Daniel Eriksson
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That is what I did.  I have not bench marked, but I did allot of 
searching on the web and reading man pages.  I just can't make the 
changes permanent.  When I put them in loader.conf they seem to be 
ignored.  Any suggestions to make it stick?

Jason