Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:36:57 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 |
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On Feb 01, 2002 03:17 -0600, Ken Brownfield wrote: > Since I've switched to using 2.4 in situations where /dev/random is > heavily used, I've been seeing more and more of the running issue with > /dev/random. > > After a few days of occasional use from sshd and our own cryptographic > purposes, we're seeing entropy_avail go to 0 and requests to /dev/random > block. The processes that block remain killable, but entropy no longer > appears until a reboot is performed.
What specific kernel version are you using? There were some bugs where the entropy was /32 on each usage that I fixed.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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