save-entropy in jail environment

[Brian F. Feldman]

Andy Hilker <ah at cryptobank.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> do i need save-entropy cronjobs in a jail environment or is it useless?
> I experience heavy load when "save-entropy" runs, because there are
> many jails on the system.
> So i wondered about if i need this only on base system...
> 
> Any ideas or hints, how to minimize the load?

The random(4) device is per-kernel, not per-jail, so it's not useful for 
those processes to be running in jails at all.

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