/dev/random blocked

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

Hi,

Are there others having the problem that a process (on a busy system)
in rare occasions blocks on reading /dev/random?  I have now seen this
twice, one time on RHL 9 and one time on RHEL 3 and in both cases I
tried several things but finally had to reboot to solve the problem.

I see with strace that a processes reading /dev/random blocks
(not sure if it was /dev/urandom in the other case), also when I start
a new process, the device just doesn't provide a single byte anymore.

Thanks,

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