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
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