Hello, On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday February 5 2009, David Bolt wrote:
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:-
On Thursday, 2009-02-05 at 18:44 -0000, David Bolt wrote:
If you'd prefer not to use /dev/urandom , you could change the command to if=/dev/zero instead and have the same effect.
In my machine, it is slow and cpu intensive.
Hmm, using /dev/urandom on my machines, the test transfers were done so fast that I couldn't tell whether it was CPU intensive or not.
Depending on your hardware (might you have a hardware RNG?) this might be expected to be the case at least some of the time.
You guys have it the wrong way around. You don't want to give 'em randomness as fast as you can, but you want to give it to them as _slow_ as you can! Make that file e.g. 4MByte and deliver it at 1 Byte/s! -dnh -- "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, is that none of it has tried to contact us." -- Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org