On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:22 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After upgrading a small embedded system's net-snmp from 5.7.3 to 5.8, > snmpd now takes a _long_ time to start up. Snmpd used to start > "instantly", but now it blocks on /dev/random for as long as 3-5 > minutes. This holds up my entire system startup unacceptably. > > Is there any way to avoid this disruptive behavior? > > We had a similar problem with docker pausing for 2×60s on startup waiting for /dev/random to fill up (openssl was suspect.) We used rngd ot mitigate it. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rng-tools Whether you have sufficient space for it, may be another matter... -- PJH
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