On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:10:04PM +0200, Janne Peltonen wrote:
RHEL 7, and slapd seems to be linked to the Mozilla nss libraries.
I called them "spurious" because there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the errors and any external events. But I have to admit I do not understand what kind of activity might cause entropy to be low; I somehow thought it would be a simple case of "more entropy used than the pool has" and then it would be simply caused by too much activity. But these errors seem to come sometimes when the server is more loaded and sometimes when it is less loaded and I haven't found any way to make them more probable. Or less.
Perhaps unrelated, but at $JOB we had to explore using /dev/urandom vs /dev/random on out CentOS 6 servers:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/324210
--Janne / Helsinki Uni