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Re: rnd entropy estimate running low?
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 05:40:01PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:38:02AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > The statistical failures later in system run might indicate a memory
> > integrity issue, a race condition of some kind, or just be the expected
> > roughly 3/10000 random occurrences. Hard to say without more information.
>
> I see statistical test failures on various hardware during later system run
> a lot. Others have stated the same, IIRC.
The only time we've ever really dug into it, I believe, the user decided
the failures were right around the expected failure rate. Can you help
gather more data?
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