From: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:01:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020201110137.B2560@asooo.flowerfire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020201031744.A32127@asooo.flowerfire.com> <1012582401.813.1.camel@phantasy>
In-Reply-To: <1012582401.813.1.camel@phantasy>; from rml@tech9.net on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:53:20AM -0500
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:53:20AM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
| On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 04:17, Ken Brownfield wrote:
| Most of the useful fixes actually came in a large update from Andreas
| Dilger. Perhaps he would have some insight, too.
Ah, my apoligies then.
| Exhausting entropy to zero under high use is not uncommon (that is a
| motivation for my netdev-random patch). What boggles me is why it does
| not regenerate?
Yeah -- slow entropy is "acceptable", but blocking until a reboot is rather unacceptable. ;)
Thx much,
--
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com
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| Robert
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-01 9:17 Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 16:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-01 17:00 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 16:53 ` Robert Love
2002-02-01 17:01 ` Ken Brownfield [this message]
2002-02-04 9:28 ` Sean Hunter
2002-02-01 18:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 19:38 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 19:50 ` Robert Love
2002-02-01 19:52 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 19:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-01 20:22 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 19:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-01 20:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 20:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 1:33 ` David Wagner
2002-02-02 8:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 8:54 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-02-02 11:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-04 22:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-04 22:37 ` Roland Dreier
2002-02-04 22:45 ` Robert Love
2002-02-05 23:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-05 23:17 ` Robert Love
2002-02-06 16:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-06 16:31 ` Need a clew WRT fig2dev Kirk Reiser
2002-02-06 16:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-02-06 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-09 19:45 ` Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 Nix N. Nix
2002-02-03 12:51 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-02-01 20:23 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-01 20:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 20:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 20:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 20:56 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-01 22:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 23:27 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-02 1:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-02 2:05 ` David Wagner
2002-02-02 3:30 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-02 21:02 ` Martin Dalecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-04 21:53 Ishan O. Jayawardena
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