* martin f krafft schrieb am 04.07.06 um 18:23 Uhr: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> [2006.07.04.1717 +0200]: > > Does cat /dev/urandom blocks at all? > > No, and I can get a good rate out of it: > > node04:/dev# pv -r /dev/urandom >/dev/null ---> [5.64MB/s] > > > If you *really* want to be sure nothing is using /dev/random > > behind your back, temporarily move it out of the way and make it > > the same as /dev/urandom. > > Done, no change. martin, have you tried to strace the processes to see what they are really doing during that 15 seconds? cheers -marc -- 8AAC 5F46 83B4 DB70 8317 3723 296C 6CCA 35A6 4134
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