[tor-relays] Warnings in log

krishna e bera keb at cyblings.on.ca
Tue Oct 1 23:13:32 UTC 2013


On 13-10-01 03:00 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 08:42:51PM +0200, Konrad Neitzel wrote:
>> And now I also got the following warning:
>> Oct 01 18:25:19.000 [warn] Cannot get strong entropy: no entropy source
>> found.
> 
> That sounds like a side effect of not having enough file descriptors.
> 
> Are you using a Tor rpm (in which case maybe you should submit a patch
> for it), or just installing from source (in which case maybe you should
> use a Tor rpm)?

I am using the .deb package which does set the ulimit.

To increase the available bits of entropy i installed haveged as well,
but i am not sure it was needed or if it is having a good effect.
http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/



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