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Re: ssh-rand-helper processes

Subject: Re: ssh-rand-helper processes
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:29:00 +0100
matfrances@fibertel.com.ar wrote:
Hello everybody,
I´am having some problems with ssh-rand-helper processes. I have about 15 processes sleeping.


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It seems to be piling up rand-helper processes. Someone knows why this happens? Is a Solaris 7 OS.

This is OpenSSH, right? Which version? Are there any processes with the pids of the ssh-rand-helper processes as their parent process ids?


I recall there there was a bug that would prevent timing out and killing of entropy gatherers when they hung, but that was fixed years ago.

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