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Re: lack of entropy



On 13.11.06 13:04, Marek Podmaka wrote:
>   I have installed new HP ML150 G3, with 2.6.18.2 kernel. The problem
>   is that I have very few entropy available (less than 200 as reported
>   by /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail). This causes performance
>   issues - apache can't handle more requests, although no data is
>   being read from disk (all cached, only log files are being written)
>   as CPU is utilized only to about 30%.

use /dev/urandom for entropy reading
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