Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:00:06 -0600 | From | Ken Brownfield <> | Subject | Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 |
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:36:57AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: | 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.
Yes, which was at least partially Robert's contribution.
I'm seeing this on 2.4.16 and 2.4.18-preN. It's been there since the beginning AFAIK. -- Ken. brownfld@irridia.com
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