On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Shawn Jiang wrote:
This could increase the linux start up speed significantly. Does anyone
know is it safe to add -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom to our
startup script directly.
Don't know if it will break something on other linux/unix
Apache HTTPD Server, OpenSSL, and GPG support using EGD as an alternative for
Unix systems which do not support the /dev/random device.
EGD is written in perl (Entropy Gathering Daemon - http://egd.sourceforge.net/).
PRNGD is written in C (Pseudo Random Number Generator Daemon -
This could increase the linux start up speed significantly. Does anyone
know is it safe to add -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom to our
startup script directly.
Don't know if it will break something on other linux/unix platforms.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Kevan Miller
On 15.07.2011 04:19, Kevan Miller wrote:
From time to time I encounter a problem starting a Geronimo server on a Linux
system (I've always seen it on Ubuntu -- but the problem could exist on other
distributions). The server start seems to hang. However, if you're patient,
which I rarely am,
On 15.07.2011 15:56, Rainer Jung wrote:
On 15.07.2011 04:19, Kevan Miller wrote:
From time to time I encounter a problem starting a Geronimo server on a
Linux system (I've always seen it on Ubuntu -- but the problem could exist
on other distributions). The server start seems to hang.
On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Rainer Jung wrote:
snip
And note that due to a bug in the JDK you really need to use
/dev/./urandom
or
/dev//urandom
and not
/dev/urandom.
Oracle themselves already internally use dev/urandom, but later they
switch from /dev/urandom to
From time to time I encounter a problem starting a Geronimo server on a Linux
system (I've always seen it on Ubuntu -- but the problem could exist on other
distributions). The server start seems to hang. However, if you're patient,
which I rarely am, the server will eventually start. If you're
Kevan, thanks for letting us know.
I've collected your description into G3.0 doc.
https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC30/runtime-issues.html
Jeff
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Kevan Miller kevan.mil...@gmail.comwrote:
From time to time I encounter a problem starting a Geronimo server on a
Installing rngd/rng-tools also can help fix these sorts of problems.
--jason
On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:
From time to time I encounter a problem starting a Geronimo server on a Linux
system (I've always seen it on Ubuntu -- but the problem could exist on other
