> From: Paul D. Ouderkirk <p...@ouderkirk.ca> > Subject: Re: /dev/srandom vs. /dev/arandom > To: "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> > Cc: "James Hozier" <guitars...@yahoo.com>, misc@openbsd.org > Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 5:41 PM > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, > Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> > wrote: > >> In any case, I'm > >> getting just under 600KB/s on average with > /dev/random. This is on a rather > >> old machine, so I guess it's not too bad. > > > > I am getting 9MB/sec on a zaurus (416 MHz xscale > arm). > > Just so everyone is on the same page, how are you measuring > that? dd > if=/dev/random of=/dev/null ? > > > > > If my math is right, you would see 600KB/sec on a 10 > MHz Xeon. > > > > Yes, I said MHz. > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------ > Paul D. Ouderkirk > Senior UNIX System Administrator > p...@ouderkirk.ca > ------------------------------ > laughing, > in the mechanism > -- William Gibson > >
On /dev/null as opposed to my hard drive, I do get 600MB/s though.
