On 12-04-03 04:52 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > I was wondering why hostapd (on cerowrt 3.3) ate so much cpu, even when > idle, nothing connected, no crypto enabled... > > I'm curious as to if this is correct behavior, and what's the point of > writing 000s to /dev/random,
Is it supposed to be feeding the entropy pool (i.e. perhaps from RF noise for example) for the kernel's random number generator? I'm really not sure if writing into /dev/random does feed the entropy pool or not, but just guessing here. Cheers, b.
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