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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

  Udo,

We do have the rng-tools included, which provides rngd. Does this not  
meet your need?

Heiko

Quoting Udo Lembke <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/
>
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  Heiko Zuerker