On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 09:42:17AM -0400, Michael J. Redd wrote: > > The release notes for buster do mention this issue and provide a > > link to: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation > > > > which has your Haveged solution as one of its suggestions. > > > > D'oh! Serves me right for just skimming the release notes, then. After > doing some in-depth reading, this is a problem for the Linux community > at large. Wow. While I'm glad the kernel's getting choosier about where > and how to harvest entropy and can personally live with the ~30 seconds > added to VM boot times, it could be painful to, for example, bootstrap > a Linux guest on AWS for the first time and wait for the initial SSH > keys to be created. > > Will be interesting to see how this evolves over time. In the meantime, > as this is not actually a kernel defect, I suppose this bug can be > closed.
I suspect that this bug might end up being mergeable with https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948519. In that bug, I am investigating cherry-picking commit 50ee7529ec45 from the linux mainline branch for buster. At least on the arm64 ec2 instances where I've tested, this change resolves the issue. If I provide a package for you, would you be able to test it in your environment to see if the proposed patch addresses the problem there? Thanks noah https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=50ee7529ec45
