OT Linux (RE: [rescue] OT: Stuffed Proliant?)

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Dec 22 14:21:16 CST 2001


On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> Part of that is sparcs being slower at the bit rotates, however, it is
> also being very hurt by being lightly loaded.  OpenSSH will block if there
> is not enough entropy in /dev/random.   So, if the server was more
> heavily used, you'd get in quicker...

And there also is no /dev/random in Solaris, unless you've installed one
of the packages that adds it (ANDIrand, etc).  This will be "fixed" in
Solaris 9.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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