/dev/random is blocking in container on OCP 4
Issue
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When reading from
/dev/randomin a container on OpenShift Container Platform, this blocks for a long time, why is that?sh-4.4$ time head -n 1 /dev/random [..] real 0m20.296s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.003s -
Sometimes programs reading from
/dev/randomhang for a long time when running on OpenShift Container Platform 4.
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.7 and later
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