Adrian Sutton wrote: > In the end, ~root/.rnd and ~tomcat55/.rnd were both ignored but > setting the RANDFILE environment variable worked. Not sure what it > was defaulting to. > > Anyway, everything now starts up lightning fast. Thanks for the help.
I had just re-read Mladen's mail and experimented with RANDFILE myself, thinking that setting it to /dev/urandom might be the easiest solution. I strace'd Tomcat but couldn't find any hint that the value of RANDFILE is honored. Since my APR is built to use /dev/urandom I can't be sure, but if you just restarted Tomcat doing some typing and mouse-moving in between, the speed increase during startup might just be a result of /dev/random having gathered enough entropy in the meantime to satisfy Tomcat's read request without blocking. Does Tomcat start still fast if you do something like dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null bs=1 let that run for a couple of seconds and start Tomcat immediately after interrupting it? Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
