On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:35:38PM +0100, Jan Wolff wrote:
> Could the entropy in /dev/random be exhausted because Anthony drains more
> entropy than is produced?
That's what I'm thinking. The UML /dev/hw_random is attached to the
host's /dev/random. If you have rng-utils installed in the UML, it
will feed /dev/random from hw_random (once my patch is applied). At
that point, you should be limited by the host's entropy.
And I have seen my host have trouble accumulating entropy. It was my
laptop - logged in remotely so there weren't keypresses and mouse
movements, but there was disk and network traffic. It was having
trouble getting enough entropy to make sshd happy.
Jeff
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