Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 01 Feb 2002 11:53:20 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 04:17, Ken Brownfield wrote:
> Robert Love did some /dev/random maintenance a while back, and his > netdev patches are essential for low disk-activity systems. While his > patches have helped the situation greatly, it appears that there is > something in the random code that can cause extraction of entropy to > permanently exhaust the pool. Some kind of issue when entropy is near > zero at the time of a read?
Most of the useful fixes actually came in a large update from Andreas Dilger. Perhaps he would have some insight, too.
Exhausting entropy to zero under high use is not uncommon (that is a motivation for my netdev-random patch). What boggles me is why it does not regenerate?
Robert
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