Re: Strange pauses in 2.6.2-rc1 / AMD64

Aaron Mulder
2004-01-22T20:35:45Z

This appears to be the issue. If I load hw_random and run rngd,
then the pauses go away. I may have been confused about the keyboard
-- I probably only typed a couple characters, which I guess wasn't
enough input.

Any idea why I wouldn't see this under 2.4? Perhaps something I
missed moving from /etc/modules.conf to /etc/modprobe.conf? I didn't see
anything about random in there, and /dev/hwrandom didn't even exist (I
had to mknod it).

Thanks,
Aaron

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Zan Lynx wrote:
> jarsigner might be waiting on /dev/random for some cryptographically
> random bytes. One source of randomness is mouse interrupts.
>
> If that's the case though, I'm surprised that the keyboard doesn't work.
>
> Does that motherboard have support for a random generator chip? If so,
> try loading that module in.
>