Re: /dev/random blocked

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:38:45AM -0700, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:

> At one time Linux did not use SCSI disk accesses to refill the entropy 
> pool (but IDE disk accesses did).  On a server without a mouse/keyboard 
> and with limited network traffic, it was easy to exhaust the entropy 
> pool.  Not sure if that is still the case.

But this server has 200-300 Mbps (sustained) network traffic...

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