Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:44:38 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Repeatable scheduling oddity in 2.5.5x? SOLVED |
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Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Is there anything more I could do to try tracking this down? > > I have no problems repeating it. > > Could it be that your tasks are blocking on /dev/random ?
Yuck, that was the problem. I moved /dev/random out of the way and created a link to urandom, and no more stalls.
Wonder what a conversion utility needs random numbers for at all, and they surely don't need cryptographically secure ones.
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