Coda File System

Re: Long hangs on /dev/random

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:42:42 -0400
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:43:21PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> I've noticed sometimes really long hangs on venus startup. 
> strace showed up that it hangs on reading from /dev/random. 
> Seems the device waits until it got enough entropy.
> 
> Any suggestion how to work around this ? 

You could upgrade rpc2 to version 2.5.

Jan
Received on 2007-05-16 18:44:33