[darcs-users] Re: mailing list saga

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:27:01AM +0200, Thomas Hühn wrote:
> David Roundy wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry to bombard you with news about my miserable server woes, but I
> > think now that the mailing lists are fixed.  It turns out that my server
> > was running out of entropy, and eventually hit absolute zero, at which
> > point messages sent to remote servers that support tls were hanging waiting
> > for random bits to create their keys.  I've just disabled tls on sent
> 
> Oh, let me guess... Debian and Exim?
> 
> A workaround can be found at
> http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge, though I decided to
> just compile Exim myself and have it linked against openssl.

Oddly enough, the workaround described in that link doesn't seem to provide
any entropy at all.  It works on my own computer, but it may be that
interrupts don't work on a virtual server like you'd expect.  Or maybe
there's a problem with the kernel there.
-- 
David Roundy
Dept. of Physics
Oregon State University