Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > I wrote: >> Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: >>> So I'm a bit surprised that it's taking 4 minutes for you. I wonder if >>> there might be an issue related to the KDC wanting to get some amount of >>> random data and the system you're on isn't producing random bytes very >>> fast..? > >> Not sure. This is my usual development box and it also does mail, DNS, >> etc for my household, so I'd expect it to have plenty of entropy. >> But it's running a pretty old kernel, and old Kerberos too, so maybe >> the explanation is in there somewhere. > > Same test on a laptop running Fedora 28 takes a shade under 5 seconds. > The laptop has a somewhat better geekbench rating than my workstation, > but certainly not 50x better. And I really doubt it's got more entropy > sources than the workstation. Gotta be something about the kernel. > > Watching the test logs, I see that essentially all the time on the RHEL6 > machine is consumed by the two > > # Running: /usr/sbin/kdb5_util create -s -P secret0 > > steps. Is there a case for merging the two scripts so we only have to > do that once? Maybe not, if nobody else sees this.
I think that would be a good idea! Unfortunately I don't speak perl well enough to do that, so I'd just copied-and-modified. Thanks, --Robbie
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