A fun way to test (that I just did on my alpha) is to do...
dd if=/dev/random count=2048 bs=1 | uuencode /dev/stdout
...and then wiggle your mouse around (feeding entropy into the random
pool). At first I get nothing, but after a while of continuous
wiggling I get one "chunk" of random stuff at a time. If I do the
above with urandom I get a big splurge at a time.
It seems that on intel I get random numbers a bit easier, but as I
only use xterms on the alpha, I suppose I'm not feeding enough
keyboard and mouse input into the console to generate entropy. Could
this be your problem?
Sean
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:39:27AM +0200, Robin Elfrink wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Can anyone tell me why there's no data from /dev/random on linux-alpha?
>
>
> The system is an UDB Multia, running stock redhat-6.0 (kernel 2.2.5). Also
> tried 2.2.11, that doesn't give anything either.
>
> I couldn't find anything alpha architecture specific in
> drivers/char/random.c...
>
>
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