Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4

[Andreas Dilger]

On Feb 01, 2002  03:17 -0600, Ken Brownfield wrote:
> Since I've switched to using 2.4 in situations where /dev/random is
> heavily used, I've been seeing more and more of the running issue with
> /dev/random.
> 
> After a few days of occasional use from sshd and our own cryptographic
> purposes, we're seeing entropy_avail go to 0 and requests to /dev/random
> block.  The processes that block remain killable, but entropy no longer
> appears until a reboot is performed.

What specific kernel version are you using?  There were some bugs where
the entropy was /32 on each usage that I fixed.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/