Re: Trouble with /dev/urandom

2016-10-14 Thread Raphael Carvalho
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Tomasz Grabiec wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Raphael Carvalho > wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Benoît Canet < >> ben...@cloudius-systems.com> wrote: >> >>> &

Re: Trouble with /dev/urandom

2016-10-14 Thread Raphael Carvalho
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Benoît Canet wrote: > > Hello list, > > In the process of porting go to OSv I noticed that the Go runtime > initialization stall half the time waiting in a read for /dev/urandom. > > The message OSv output is "random: blocking on read.". > > It then sometime proc

Re: [PATCH] zfs: activate compression

2016-06-20 Thread Raphael Carvalho
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Hi Benoit, can you please say a few words on why, or why not, to enable > compression? > > Is it a tradeoff, e.g., good for slow disks but bad for fast disks? Is > good for some applications but bad for others? > > I believe our default was m