> > What makes you say that? Are you seeing the problem as well?
>
> Not definitively, but many others have also complained since it went
> in. It's one of the things Mark is trying to address by moving it to a
> kthread.
It _is_ most likely the random device, and I have a kthread improvement;
however kthreads are currently cooperative, not preemptive, so the code
"feels" similar[1]. I hold high hopes for the SMPng project fixing this
(for UP and MP).
[1] there are some hacks-and-kluges that can work around this, but they
are gross.
M
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