RHEL 8: Taking longer time on `sort` when fips mode is enabled as compared to RHEL 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Time for sort is higher as long as it's setup:
  # time sort a
  sort: cannot read: a: No such file or directory

  real  0m0.027s
  user  0m0.024s
  sys   0m0.003s

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • coreutils-8.30-15.el8

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