On 12.02.2010 18:05, Daniel Qian wrote:

So the point is to create some significant disk i/o on the server? or to
create enough output to the stand output? In the later case `cat
bigfile` will do the same trick, right?

'The Linux kernel generates entropy from keyboard timings, mouse movements, and IDE timings and makes the random character data available to other operating system processes through the special files /dev/random and /dev/urandom.'

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(computing)

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