On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:10:04PM +0200, Janne Peltonen wrote: > RHEL 7, and slapd seems to be linked to the Mozilla nss libraries. > > I called them "spurious" because there doesn't seem to be any correlation > between the errors and any external events. But I have to admit I do not > understand what kind of activity might cause entropy to be low; I somehow > thought it would be a simple case of "more entropy used than the pool has" and > then it would be simply caused by too much activity. But these errors seem to > come sometimes when the server is more loaded and sometimes when it is less > loaded and I haven't found any way to make them more probable. Or less.
Perhaps unrelated, but at $JOB we had to explore using /dev/urandom vs /dev/random on out CentOS 6 servers: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/324210 > > --Janne / Helsinki Uni > -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large
