Re: How to avoid long startup delay waiting for /dev/random?

Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-12-15, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:

> After upgrading a small embedded system's net-snmp from 5.7.3 to 5.8,
> snmpd now takes a _long_ time to start up. Snmpd used to start
> "instantly", but now it blocks on /dev/random for as long as 3-5
> minutes. This holds up my entire system startup unacceptably.

This was done at the same time openssl was upgraded from 1.0.0 to
1.1.1, so that may be the root cause of the problem. It looks like I'm
going to have to disable use of openssl when I configure netsnmp.

--
Grant




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