On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Thomas wrote: > > Linux cited using keyboard interrupts. How many of those happen on > > a web server in a rack, in an air conditioned computer room somewhere ? > > How many happen when you open up your web browser and select your > > internet banking web site from your bookmarks? > > To complete the list, Linux uses: > - block-device access well, for the current 2.4 kernel series block device must be different from i2o type controllers. I have some servers (no keyboard, no mouse) with only i2o storage that weren't gathering any "entropy" according to /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail. I submitted a patch several times with no luck. Without the patch the entropy_avail counter was always at 0. Regards -- IS0FKQ
