apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while back:
1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide that but you need to enable support in the kernel. 2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This makes apr use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random. urandom isn't as strong cryptographically speaking as random but might be good enough for your use. 3. Disable digest authentication in the apache configuration. 4. Use some entropy gathering daemon like sys-apps/clrngd, media-sound/sound-entropyd or media-video/video-entropyd. I emerged and started clrngd and it seems to work nicely. I'd rather use a hardware RNG if I have one. Where in the kernel should I find RNG support? Are #1 followed by #4 the preferred options? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
