From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:16:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204092316.SAA05188@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 01:25:37 GMT." <20020408012536.A329@toy.ucw.cz>
pavel@suse.cz said:
> Why don't you just feed your /dev/random from hosts /dev/random?
That would open up DOS attacks on the host. A nasty person inside a UML
could drain the host's /dev/random and hang anything on the host that needs
random numbers.
> Wow.. Why such strange value?
HZ > 50 is needed to make ps and friends shut up.
HZ % 4 == 0 is needed to make some QOS thing compile.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-09 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-08 20:56 user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15 Jeff Dike
2002-04-08 1:25 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-09 23:16 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2002-04-09 22:17 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-10 1:44 ` Jeff Dike
2002-04-10 3:53 ` [uml-user] " Andreas Dilger
2002-04-10 21:14 ` David Wagner
2002-04-08 20:02 ` Robert Love
2002-04-08 23:09 ` Jeff Dike
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