7 Jun
2010
7 Jun
'10
4:41 p.m.
** Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> [2010-06-07 14:35]:
If you're on IRC, or follow me/bitfolk on twitter
or on Facebook
you're probably bored to tears hearing about this, but just in case
there's some of you who aren't..
I've been investigating the issue of lack of entropy in virtual
machines recently, and have gone into it in some detail in the
following two blog postings:
http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/06/06/adventures-in-entropy-part-1/
http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/06/07/adventures-in-entropy-part-2/
I now have a solution for serving high-quality entropy to BitFolk
virtual machines, so if you feel you don't have as much entropy as
you need then it would be great if you would try out using my (free)
entropy service.
** end quote [Andy Smith]
I am concerned, but not with my Bitfolk VPS entropy! I've taken a look having
seen your blog entries tweeted and found that my VPS seems to be running with
pretty similar entropy to my 'about to be retired' server. This box runs on a
Celeron 533. Oddly the replacement box, which is running on an Atom 330 is very
low on entropy.
For example, for the past week:
VPS: Max, 3569; Avg, 2774; Min 145
Old: Max, 3649; Avg, 2406; Min 129
New: Max, 192; Avg, 160; Min 128
Which would seem to indicate that the VPS is doing best of the lot, certainly
dipping less often than my old box. The figures for the new box are drasticly
lower though! Now I've got something else to add to my things to do list! :(
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