Andrew Suffield wrote: [snip] > > Hm, it is easily reproducible on SWARM, as well as on a Octane with 2 > > CPUs. Which probably means it is a SMP-induced race condition in fork. > > My bet is that it's this kernel bug: > > I don't know if you've been following, but it was recently discoverd that on > smp, if multiple processes read from /dev/urandom at the same time, they can > get the same data. Theodore Tytso posted a patch to fix this for 2.6, and > someone else told me this problem has existed all the way back to 1.3. > > Fixed in 2.4.29 and 2.6.5. What kernel version have you got there? If > it's 2.4.27 (sarge) then I think we have our problem found.
2.4.27 (sarge) on SWARM, 2.6.12 on the Octane. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
