On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:26:22PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > not terribly. I moved to /dev/urandom, but would really like to know why /dev/ > random is empty and why doesn't it replenishes fast enough, or maybe at all - > I turned off all userland randomacity consumers, and I still the pool is > empty. on my workstation (which has user input to get random data from), the > pool replenishes within seconds.
Could you check with something like strace dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1000 that the pool is indeed empty? the sysctl seems somewhat suspect. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org
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