From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 36380@debbugs.gnu.org, Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
Subject: bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:03:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190627190314.GA7403@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhm3xdfu.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 05:20:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> We had a “bug report” at
> <https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190624#guixsd>, which may be
> due to the same issue:
>
> The first time I loaded Guix the boot process took an unusually long
> time. At one point the system appeared to lock up for about five
> minutes before continuing. In the end, from boot menu to graphical
> login screen, the start-up time totalled about ten minutes.
Perhaps, but if the reason for the slowness on their first boot was a
suboptimal /dev/hwrng source, I would expect it to be equally slow for
each boot, since we unconditionally read 64 bytes each time.
However, their next sentence says, "Curiously, after the first boot,
Guix started up considerably faster, generally taking less than a minute
to arrive at the login screen."
They are using an old machine with a spinning disk, so who knows...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-25 18:12 bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot Robert Vollmert
2019-06-26 9:41 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2019-06-26 15:47 ` Leo Famulari
2019-06-26 16:02 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-27 19:19 ` Leo Famulari
2019-06-27 15:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-27 19:03 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2019-06-27 20:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-28 6:47 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-28 17:24 ` Leo Famulari
2019-07-11 17:44 ` Leo Famulari
2019-07-11 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-17 21:04 ` bug#36380: related article (Debian) Robert Vollmert
2020-03-22 8:43 ` bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot Brice Waegeneire
2020-03-22 20:19 ` Leo Famulari
2020-12-27 15:00 ` Stefan
2020-12-27 23:09 ` Leo Famulari
2020-12-27 23:28 ` Stefan
2020-12-29 2:51 ` Leo Famulari
2021-02-07 15:23 ` raid5atemyhomework via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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