Dear Managers,
We have some systems with 4.0F running DCE services only for RPC support. Whenever we enable the DCE services, the 'randd' process -a daemon for pre-generation of random numbers- appears with a nice value of 2. This is a very nice process, then.
However, other processes fail to obtain full attention of the system due to this daemon running.
The DCE documentation seems to suggest that killing randd will not harm the system. The performance of DCE itself may be reduced, but that is a price I am willing to pay; that is, if that is the only thing to pay.
Thus, my question to you is two-fold:
1. Is there anything else I should worry about if I configure the system to not start 'randd' on the startup sequence?
2. How can I configure the system to not start 'randd' automatically while keeping the DCE support for RPC?
Thanks in advance, and I will summarize the replies I get.
Yours,
Carlos Martinez-Mascarua
Project Engineer
ALSTOM ESCA
Received on Fri Aug 18 2000 - 10:35:53 NZST