Re: /dev/random blocking causing i2p router to crash

On 2026-06-30, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was mistaken about /dev/random blocking, thanks for the corrections.
>
> It turns out I had followed the i2pd docs a bit too closely and copied
> their documentation for the /etc/login.conf which had i2pd:\ ... 
> instead of i2p:\ ..., which I forgot to change. That's what I get 
> trying to fix this late at night.
>
> Setting openfiles-cur=16000 and openfiles-max=16000 in login.conf has
> fixed the issue. It was in fact because of my open file limit being
> to small.

Sounds like the i2p port should include an i2p.login file, like other
ports known to normally need higher limits than the default (e.g. ad
i2pd already has).


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