Re: Kernel RNG ???

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

Perhaps we could make the messages a little bit less frightening?

Perhaps s/FAILURE/NOTICE/



On Wed, 20 May 2015, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1505201111400.29987%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost>,
> <6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > dmesg reported:
> >
> > Kernel RNG "2105 0 2" runs test FAILURE: too many runs of 3 1s (728 > 723)
> > cprng 2105 0 2: failed statistical RNG test
> >
> > Any ideas what could be the problem?
> >
> >
> > kernel version: NetBSD 7.99.9
> > distribution: netbsd-7 (version May 11)
>
> It is not really a problem. Things like this can happen. If you see messages
> like this continuously, then there is a problem. In current a bunch of RNG
> diagnostic messages have been turned on in order to evaluate the quality
> of the random number generation.
>
> christos

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