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Haveged on ReadyNas Ultra ?
I am running LMS (squeezebox) on my readynas ultra. There is a problem with the Random mix. The problem is that it isn't very random. The problem could be this that I have read about: http://www.i...
chirpa wrote:
203
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
134
On my Pro Pioneer running 4.2.24, after 7 hours of uptime, my first read was 3 and I never got a value above 120 bits even after lots of file-access-induced hardware randomness.
Chirpa, I notice that even with haveged running, each of your "cat" invocations seemed to consume around 100 bits of entropy. If you do something like "watch cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail" with haveged running, does the available entropy stay high (or refill when it gets below the read threshold), or does it fall all the way to single digits as it would without haveged?
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