Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:50:37PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I think we should find and remove theses (or make them conditional)
> > instead of adding unconditional new ones
> 
> It would already be conditional in the sense that it's only printed if
> the system has no entropy.  If a multi-user system is lacking entropy,
> a user spamming the console about it is doing the administrator a
> favor.

If you run a dd on /dev/random I guess the system will run out of
entropy pretty fast.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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