On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:22:16PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Is there a simple way for a simple admin like me to get round this problem?
One more thing. Test the correctness/responsiveness of the various
random devices. First post the output of:
$ ls -lL /dev/*random
# This one should be fast
$ time dd if=/dev/urandom bs=32b count=1 of=/dev/null
# This one might be *extremely* slow, you might not be willing
# to wait that long...
$ time dd if=/dev/random bs=32b count=1 of=/dev/null
... for any other "*random" devices.
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Viktor.