Re: How to avoid long startup delay waiting for /dev/random?

2021-01-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-01-05, Alexander Dahl wrote: > Am 15.12.20 um 18:03 schrieb Grant Edwards: >> 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 >>

Re: How to avoid long startup delay waiting for /dev/random?

2021-01-05 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hello Grant, disclaimer: I'm no crypto expert. Am 15.12.20 um 18:03 schrieb Grant Edwards: 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

Re: How to avoid long startup delay waiting for /dev/random?

2020-12-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-15, Paul Herring wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:22 PM Grant Edwards > 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

Re: How to avoid long startup delay waiting for /dev/random?

2020-12-15 Thread Paul Herring
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:22 PM Grant Edwards 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

Re: How to avoid long startup delay waiting for /dev/random?

2020-12-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > This was done at the same time openssl was upgraded from 1.0.0 to > 1.1.1, so that may be the root cause of the problem. It looks like I'm > going to have to disable use of openssl when I configure netsnmp. It might be nice if long-duration, time-consuming

Re: How to avoid long startup delay waiting for /dev/random?

2020-12-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-15, Grant Edwards 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