On 10/6/20 6:29 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/6/20 2:28 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
My system log is filled with dozens of this line:

localhost.localdomain rngd[638]: Entropy Generation is slow, consider tuning/adding sources

I see that mine is too.

Is this something to be concerned about?

It depends on if you're doing anything that requires entropy.
The problem with mine is that it thinks the hwrng is too slow for some reason.  I solved this issue by adding a different source.
Run "rngd -l" to get a list of available sources:
# rngd -l
Entropy sources that are available but disabled
1: TPM RNG Device (tpm)
4: NIST Network Entropy Beacon (nist)
Available and enabled entropy sources:
0: Hardware RNG Device (hwrng)
5: JITTER Entropy generator (jitter)

I created a file called /etc/systemd/system/rngd.service.d/override.conf and put the following in it:
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/sbin/rngd -f -n tpm

Both of those ExecStart lines are necessary.  This adds the TPM source. Then run "systemctl daemon-reload" and "systemctl rngd restart".
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  Any reason you picked tpm over the others?

  I'll give this a shot.

Thanks Samuel
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