Perhaps we could make the messages a little bit less frightening?
Perhaps s/FAILURE/NOTICE/
On Wed, 20 May 2015, Christos Zoulas wrote:
In article <pine.neb.4.64.1505201111400.29...@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de>,
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
dmesg reported:
Kernel RNG "2105 0 2" runs test FAILURE: too many runs of 3 1s (728 > 723)
cprng 2105 0 2: failed statistical RNG test
Any ideas what could be the problem?
kernel version: NetBSD 7.99.9
distribution: netbsd-7 (version May 11)
It is not really a problem. Things like this can happen. If you see messages
like this continuously, then there is a problem. In current a bunch of RNG
diagnostic messages have been turned on in order to evaluate the quality
of the random number generation.
christos
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