On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 16:39 +0200, folkert wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 > Version: 2.6.26-15 > Severity: normal > > > On an idle system with nothing running except sshd, getty and 1 bash shell (1 user logged in - myself), the entropy buffer of > /dev/random gets depleted very quick: > > zolder:/tmp# ./a.out ; while true ; do echo `date` `cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail` ; sleep 1 ; done0 [...] Now add strace to those commands. Do you see the problem? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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