On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 17:33:11 -0400 Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:50:24AM +0100, Francis Devereux wrote: > > ssh needs a source of randomness to operate (/dev/random), which in > > turn needs a pool of entropy which is fed from things like the > > keyboard interrupt. Your lockups could be caused by sshd stalling > > because the entropy pool is empty - can you try the following: > > are you sure it uses /dev/random? except for key generation, it should > use/dev/urandom. No, I'm not sure. If it is using /dev/urandom then the lockups can't be being caused by the entropy pool becoming empty, because /dev/urandom won't block in this case like /dev/random would, right? Francis
