Bug#323176: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: Measured kernel entropy dropped significantly after upgrade

[Chris Higgins <chris.higgins@darach.ie>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686
Version: 2.6.12-2
Severity: normal


We run munin & munin-node on our systems, to provide some form of 
trend analysis.

The before & after pictures for kernel entropy on 2.6.12 are odd.

The before - was a pretty constant entropy up averaging about 3800
The after is averaging 733

To make it clear - here is the munin graph as of Aug 15th
http://www.darach.ie/images/legolas.darach.ie-entropy-week.png


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.81.1   tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre8-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 recommends no packages.

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