On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 08:01:04AM +0200, Christophe LEROY wrote:
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> On a powerpc embedded board which has an mpc8xx processor running at 133Mhz,
> I now get the startup done in more than 7 minutes instead of 30 seconds.
> This is due to the webserver blocking on read on /dev/random until we get
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 05:07:08PM -0700, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
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> On a Photon OS VM running on VMware ESXi, this patch causes a boot speed
> regression of 5 minutes :-( [ The VM doesn't have haveged or rng-tools
> (rngd) installed. ]
>
> [1.420246] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: barrie
Le 13/04/2018 à 19:00, Theodore Y. Ts'o a écrit :
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:05:01PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
What I would like to point out that more and more folks change to
getrandom(2). As this call will now unblock much later in the boot cycle,
these systems see a significant depart
On 4/13/18 10:00 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:05:01PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>>
>> What I would like to point out that more and more folks change to
>> getrandom(2). As this call will now unblock much later in the boot cycle,
>> these systems see a significant d
Hi Ted,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The crng_init variable has three states:
>
> 0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
> 1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
>early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
> 2: The CRNG is fully initializ
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:05:01PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> What I would like to point out that more and more folks change to
> getrandom(2). As this call will now unblock much later in the boot cycle,
> these systems see a significant departure from the current system behavior.
>
> E.
Am Freitag, 13. April 2018, 14:53:13 CEST schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o:
Hi Theodore,
>
> This was always the original design intent, but I screwed up and no
> one noticed until Jann reached out to be and said, "Hey this
> doesn't seem to make much sense".
I disagree, but I guess you would have e
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 07:38:30AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > The crng_init variable has three states:
> >
> > 0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
> > 1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
> >early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
> > 2: The CRNG is f
Am Freitag, 13. April 2018, 03:30:42 CEST schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
Hi Theodore,
> The crng_init variable has three states:
>
> 0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
> 1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
>early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
> 2: The CRNG i
