I'm using my beige G3 as a mail/web/etc server, where it's a lot faster than the 133MHZ Pentium I was using before :-). One problem, though, is that /dev/random seems to run out of entropy a lot faster than any of my other machines, which means that apps will usually hang unless I'm around to move the mouse. This happens on bootup when it tries to start up krb5-kdc, and also when I try to collect mail from the cyrus imap server (here it's probably tied up with sasl, I think).
Checking using sysctl (three times in quick succession): tinkerbell:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 110 tinkerbell:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 6 tinkerbell:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 6 If I move the mouse a little, it improves temporarily, but drops fast: tinkerbell:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 77 tinkerbell:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 5 Doing the same thing on my 1200MHz Athlon: khufu:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 3712 khufu:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 3456 khufu:~# sysctl -A | grep entropy kernel.random.entropy_avail = 3200 which is a lot closer to what I'd expect. I'm running sarge, using a vanilla (i.e. non-Debian) 2.6.7 kernel, with no patches applied. Is this a known ppc problem (this is the only ppc linux machine I've ever seen), or should I start troubleshooting? Any suggestions/workarounds? Thanks, .....Ron -- Ron Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.rjmx.net/~ron GPG Public Key Fingerprint: F2C1 FC47 5EF7 0317 133C D66B 8ADA A3C4 D86C 74DE