> [email protected] wrote (20 Dec 2012 16:14:46 GMT) : >> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize is always 4096. Unusable for >> benchmarking. > > Sure. > >> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail numbers always change. >> Depends on hardware (real or virtual). Also depending on which >> entropy related packages are installed they change even more. > > Full ACK. > >> I didn't check the kernel sources either, but this is backed up by >> practical tests and instructions on how to benchmark it everywhere. >> There is a consensus. > > Looks like there's a big misunderstanding about my intent.
Yes. Now I got it. > I'm not saying these results are useless (they are probably all we > need to know in practice), For busy servers requiring lots of entropy it could still be interesting in practice. > I'm just mentioning it because you wanted > to check if running haveged and randomsound at the same time results > in even more entropy available... and without any experiment, one > could tell that ($max + $max) can't possibly be greater than $max. > See what I mean? :) Yes, that's right. I wanted to see, if they interfere with each other. In theory installing two packages could result in a incompatibility. Two solutions blocking each other, perhaps by eating up too much CPU and archiving nothing. What we know now is, that they don't interfere up to 4096. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
