stuck lmtpd processes

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Sep 24 19:45:29 EDT 2003


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Andrew Morgan wrote:

> > /dev/urandom for its entropy source, rather than /dev/random?
>
> I've already compiled cyrus-sasl to use /dev/urandom.  I'm not sure where
> else I can change that, assuming this is the problem.

If the IMAP process is trying to read for periods on the order of hours
I'm having trouble believing that it is a /dev/random blockage (does the
IMAP process even have /dev/random open?).

The backtrace isn't terribly illuminating (if it even resembles reality at
all).

-Rob

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