On Thu, 19 May 2005, Baker, Darryl wrote: > There really is no error message. The system uses a lot of ssh for custom > monitors. What we find is that during the time of the semi-hourly cfengine > run the load average spikes and we get a lot of the ssh processes as well as > the cfservd threads spinning on a kernel semaphore related to /dev/random. > Pumping /dev/random with more pseudo random data relieves the load somewhat.
You can use PRNG or EGD as a randomness source, so you don't block on generating new entropy. /dev/urandom is a nice workaround but there isn't such thing on solaris afaik http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#egd http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#prngd -- - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://eric.explosive.net - - Personal colo with a professional touch - http://www.explosive.net - _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine