The 5.3 kernel is out
The 5.3 kernel is out
Posted Sep 16, 2019 9:29 UTC (Mon) by mgedmin (guest, #34497)Parent article: The 5.3 kernel is out
And now I'm curious to know how a performance improvement reduced the amount of entropy.
Fewer I/O operations causing fewer interrupts? Interrupt timings used to increase entropy? Fewer interrupts -- less entropy?
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