Hi Jeff, hi Anthony, hi everybody! Just a thought...
Could the entropy in /dev/random be exhausted because Anthony drains more entropy than is produced? As far as I know, entropy production rate depends on attached hardware and even might become zero, but I don't know if normal usage of sshd, apache+ssl, and dm-crypt could drain the entropy that is produced. Once, I set up a small box without harddrive, cdrom, keyboard, and mouse that had no entropy at all. Openssh crashed on startup until /dev/random was a symlink to /dev/urandom. Jan Anthony Brock wrote: > Hmmm, I would guess that the random patch is helping a little as I have only > had two recurrences since installing new kernel: > > Feb 27 11:35:09 dns2 sshd[1152]: fatal: Couldn't obtain random bytes (error > 604389476) > Feb 27 14:29:16 www sshd[3060]: fatal: Couldn't obtain random bytes (error > 604389476) > > A significant improvement over the 2-3 pages a day I was receiving before. > Of course, this could just be the result of a change in the pattern of > Internet traffic against the server. Thoughts? > > Tony > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > User-mode-linux-user mailing list > User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
