[Devil-Linux-discuss] one more thing... haveged

[Udo L. <ul...@po...>]

Hi Heiko,
if devil-linux run as VM the entropy isn't very high. For some workloads
(like TLS/SSL) this can produce strange effects - slow systems because
the process wait for valid random.
haveged* can be very helpful for this and it's a very small software
(all together less than one MB):

root@devil-linux:/ # cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
198
root@devil-linux:/ # /opt/sbin/haveged
root@devil-linux:/ # cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2424

Of course, I can write an startscript if you include haveged.

Udo

* http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/