- djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2010/01/30 02:54:53

[openssh.git] / WARNING.RNG

diff --git a/WARNING.RNG b/WARNING.RNG
index 71e23900d759b3fd8f4b0bc55043df0588d83078..d876c887c8465e0b6cc590b0aa74fcd6b848618e 100644 (file)
--- a/WARNING.RNG
+++ b/WARNING.RNG
@@ -55,11 +55,10 @@ Executing each program in the list can take a large amount of time,
 especially on slower machines. Additionally some program can take a
 disproportionate time to execute.
 
-Tuning the default entropy collection code is difficult at this point.
-It requires doing 'times ./ssh-rand-helper'  and modifying the
-($etcdir)/ssh_prng_cmds until you have found the issue.  In the next
-release we will be looking at support '-v' for verbose output to allow
-easier debugging.
+Tuning the random helper can be done by running ./ssh-random-helper in
+very verbose mode ("-vvv") and identifying the commands that are taking
+excessive amounts of time or hanging altogher.  Any problem commands can
+be modified or removed from ssh_prng_cmds.
 
 The default entropy collector will timeout programs which take too long
 to execute, the actual timeout used can be adjusted with the