Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS

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Author: Antony
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS
> From: "Paul Stimpson"
> That's what I was thinking too but the machine is a dual core 2.4 and the
> 2 cores are alternating between 43% and 57% (one on each then swapping).
> I assume that random generation is a compute-bound activity so if that
> was the bottleneck I would have expected near on 100% both sides.

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> Don't know why this thing is so slow.


It's a bit academic but I wonder if the urandom algorithm is being split
into _dependent_ parts (43+57=100%) ? A bug list somewhere might like
to know....

Anthony