| Stephen Gran on 4 Jul 2006 12:50:57 -0000 |
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:29:35AM -0400, sean finney said: > 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... steve@gashuffer:~$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 3296 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1648.71 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 186 MB in 3.02 seconds = 61.65 MB/sec <hdparm maintainer hat on> hdparm 6.6 works just fine for SATA. Some of the ioctls are no ops, but it doesn't do anything harmful. > > 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) Hrmph. I really don't know then. Do you have hw-random (or whatever it's called) loaded? Does your board support any other entropy gatherers? > 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. A way forward (that is not really optimal, but I have heard of people doing it on systems where they can't get enouogh entropy) is to rm /dev/random, and link random to urandom. You get non-blocking IO in exchange for only kinda pseudo random numbers. Good luck. I've been struggling with a couple of servers with this problem, but fortunately for me, 2.4.27 from Debian gave me enough entropy to get by. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | I will follow the good side right to | | steve@lobefin.net | the fire, but not into it if I can help | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | it. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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