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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Jamie Lokier wrote:

> I would hope that the host can rate limit itself without needing apps
> to govern themselves, though.

That depends on the source of the entropy - some sources can, some are
fed to daemons that can, but not all systems have such daemons.

:)

-Ian