[ale] little math

[JK]

On 2/11/2010 11:35 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:

>     Doesn't Linux provide a character device for pseudo-random data?
>
>
> yep: /dev/urandom. It's a non-blocking psuedo-random generator. It
> recycles the entropy pool where as /dev/random will block until it gets
> more entropy.


Wow, it's surprising the OP was having such trouble getting enough data
to fill his disk.  If /dev/urandom is something akin to a linear
congruential RNG, I'd expect it to be way faster than necessary to
keep a SATA interface busy.

-- JK


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