On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Thorsten Schmitt-Rink
<schmittrink_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Just before the I received the mail, I deleted my apr and did a new clean
> install on svnserve,
> including the ./configure --with-dev-random=/dev/urandom for apr.
> Still the same issue.
> I did the configure just in case, since I found that suggestion in the
> subversion.tigris.org FAQ a couple of days ago.
> It would be intresting to know, what actually happens when the prossess
> hangs on:
>
>
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(10023),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("78.46.66.102")}, 16) = 0
> read(4, "( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( "..., 4096) = 76
> write(4, "( 2 ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 abs"..., 100) = 100
> read(4, "( success ( ( CRAM-MD5 ) 14:as3s"..., 4096) = 47
> write(4, "( CRAM-MD5 ( ) ) ", 17) = 17
> read(4,
>
> Is that one of the places where random numbers are needed?
Yes, absolutely. That's why I kept on harping on the /dev/random vs
/dev/urandom issue.
Bye,
Erik.
> 2008/4/28 Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Erik Huelsmann" <ehuels_at_gmail.com> writes:
> > > Karl, may I suggest this is not related to the repository, but rather
> > > to the server running out of entropy?
> > >
> > > Search the list archives for solutions to the problem of servers
> > > drawing from /dev/random and blocking because of it.
> >
> > Ah, yes. For some reason that seems to have come up a lot in the last
> > few days -- maybe the solar system is running out of entropy or
> > something.
> >
> > Thorsten Schmitt-Rink, can you rebuild APR to use /dev/urandom instead
> > of /dev/random, and then rebuild Subversion against the new APR? Uh,
> > I'm not sure whether both client and server need this done (and in fact,
> > the answer may be different for http:// vs svn://), so do both to be
> > safe. I just can't remember all the circumstances in which we need
> > random numbers.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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