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how does openvz handle /dev/random? [message #32387]

Mon, 04 August 2008 22:58

piavlo
Messages: 159
Registered: January 2007

Senior Member

Hi,
How does openvz handle /dev/random between VEs
It looks like each VE has it's own independent random data content
in /dev/random. And it never has more than a few random bytes
for a VE with almost idle apache server. While HN has lot's of
random data in /dev/random in spite of that it's idle, so it looks
like HN gets most of the random credit of active VE's for itself.

Maybe sharing /dev/random contents between all VEs and HN will help, or it posses security risk?

Thanks
Alex

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