Hi, On 01/08/14 18:06, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:50:44AM +0200, Bzzzz wrote: >> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:41:01 -0700 >> "" <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: >> >>> whatever experience you want to share. >> >> use haveged, it feeds /dev/random with a reservoir. > > I'd like to chime in that I recently installed haveged myself and have > seen a massive increase in available entropy. > > Haveged, as I understand it basically runs a fairly complex calculation > (with lots of branches and things) in a loop. Because almost all CPUs > these days are complex beasts, the time to perform the calculation > varies with each loop (sometimes because of cache misses, or maybe a > branch was optimized differently). Haveged monitors the differences in > these times and populates a random pool based on it. This is then fed in > to the kernel as another source of entropy. > > Haveged is amazingly useful on headless or virtual or appliance > machines.
Unfortunately, it does not seem to work on OpenVZ boxes. Jerome > >> >> -- >> Pazns: U don't know about the drawer method? >> Pazns: U take your schoolbag, empty it in a drawer, close it, >> hop! clean up done! >> Zeeln: Yeah but my drawers are all full… >> Pazns: U don't know about the trash method? > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53dbf96f.9010...@rezozer.net
