| sean finney on 4 Jul 2006 11:30:01 -0000 |
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hey stephen, On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:22:59AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > find / > /dev/null 2>&1 that was like the first thing i tried :) > etc. Sometimes you can generate enough entropy to get back in the black > by really working the disks, but often not. i've tried working some of the SATA disks like above without luck, but maybe there's something else i can use to generate even more i/o? for example, hdparm -tT would be a good candidate, only these are showing up as scsi... > Is this a 2.6 Debian stable kernel? The 2.6.8 kernel was at the moment nope, it's a 2.4.27 kernel, homerolled using the debian config with one or two unrelated options changed (needed for RAID or detecting the controller properly, i forget off-hand) also, i was inspired to see how the random seed is initially set, and tried catting some stuff onto /dev/urandom (as is done in the urandom.sh init script), but still no luck. sean Attachment:
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