Problem:
Intermittently the randd daemon which is part of DCE begins to use 97%
of the CPU and must be killed.
Solution:
Digital Support says "Randd ... boy I wish we had a fix for that
problem."
Kludge:
rename randd to randd.org in /usr/var/dcelocal/bin/
ln -s /usr/bin/true /usr/var/dcelocal/bin/randd
This creates a symlink which executes true a "seinfeld script" (it does
nothing and goes away). Thus randd never runs and never causes a
problem. And the system uses a less efficient algorithm when it needs a
random number. This kludge is necessary because randd is launched by
object code in DCE and cannot be shut off directly or in init.d scripts.
Thanks to:
Bruce Kelly [kellybe_at_llnl.gov]
Mohan [mkannapa_at_ford.com]
Lucio Chiappetti [lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it]
For variations on this theme.
Gene
Received on Thu Feb 18 1999 - 20:38:13 NZDT