Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Erik <esigra@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] entropy problem
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:54:44
Message-Id: 4AFAB4F7.70409@gmail.com
1 I try to commit a lot of PNGs to SVN (ran a shrink script on them) but
2 get "SSL handshake failed: Secure connection truncated" too often. I
3 Could sit there and move the mouse all the time to work around it, but I
4 would really like to avoid that.
5
6 I Installed media-sound/audio-entropyd-2.0.1 and fixed the init script
7 and conf-file as described in
8 [https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271882]. But how do I know if
9 it does anything useful? It does not seem to keep up with the
10 consumption of SVN. I even tried to "echo 3000 >
11 /proc/sys/kernel/random/write_wakeup_threshold" but it does not seem to
12 take effect. Would I need to restart audio-entropyd or do something else
13 to apply the new value?