Bernhard M. Wiedemann added the comment: traced it down a bit further. nearly all that time is spent in import _hashlib which probably means, it is spent in functions like PyInit__hashlib in Modules/_hashopenssl.c
I can see in strace that after loading libssl, libcrypto and libz, it calls getpid and opens /dev/urandom 8 times and most of the time is spent in the middle of these: grep open...dev.uran strace.out 1493970277.542629 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 1493970277.542847 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 1493970277.543370 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 1493970277.543967 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 1493970277.592232 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 1493970277.592518 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 1493970277.597778 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 1493970277.598629 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30276> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com