On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Rainer Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31.08.2012 15:45, Eric Covener wrote: >> I'm fighting a problem on new releases of AIX where in some >> environments, /dev/random seems to run out of entropy way too quick. >> >> I'd like a way to suppress the apr_uuid_get-> >> apr_generate_random_bytes() in mod_proxy_balancer used for the >> balancer-manager nonce in affected environments. > > Doesn't it only call apr_uuid_get() during creation of the balancer worker? > So IMHO it should be only a problem during startup. > Yep, at least as far as I can recall... The actual call is done via ap_proxy_define_balancer(). >> I was thinking a global "BalancerManager off" could be used for this > > For 2.4 there already seems to be a configurable "nonce" attribute for each > balancer allowing the special value "None". Not so for 2.2. But the call to apr_uuid_get() is still done, even if the person used the nonce attribute. Thats what I suggested fixing...
