STINNER Victor added the comment: To see how long it takes to initialize urandom pool, you can grep your kernel logs. On my physical PC with real hardware, interruptions etc. it's quite fast: 5 seconds.
-- Logs begin at mar. 2016-01-26 07:54:37 CET, ... ... juin 06 18:34:47 smithers kernel: random: systemd urandom read with 2 bits of entropy available ... juin 06 18:34:52 smithers kernel: random: nonblocking pool is initialized I get that the "kernel: random: systemd urandom read with 2 bits of entropy available" message comes from the kernel when systemd reads from /dev/urandom whereas the pool is not initialized yet. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26839> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
