read() calls against /dev/random blocking waiting for entropy and causing poor application performance
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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5
Problem
The customer opened a case reporting that when testing their java application on RHEL 5 the performance was worse than RHEL 4, in that it was taking several times longer to complete. Upon reviewing an strace I could see that the process was hanging for several seconds on read() calls against the file handl...
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