Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:35:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Aaron Mulder <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
cc: Brandon Ehle <azverkan@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: Strange pauses in 2.6.2-rc1 / AMD64
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	This appears to be the issue.  If I load hw_random and run rngd, 
then the pauses go away.  I may have been confused about the keyboard 
-- I probably only typed a couple characters, which I guess wasn't 
enough input.

	Any idea why I wouldn't see this under 2.4?  Perhaps something I
missed moving from /etc/modules.conf to /etc/modprobe.conf?  I didn't see 
anything about random in there, and /dev/hwrandom didn't even exist (I 
had to mknod it).

Thanks,
	Aaron

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Zan Lynx wrote:
> jarsigner might be waiting on /dev/random for some cryptographically
> random bytes.  One source of randomness is mouse interrupts.
> 
> If that's the case though, I'm surprised that the keyboard doesn't work.
> 
> Does that motherboard have support for a random generator chip?  If so,
> try loading that module in.
> 

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