Re: Apache Seems to Hang

[Karl Pearson <karlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Jeff Kinz wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:42:10AM -0600, Karl Pearson wrote:
> > I am having some issues with Apache on my server. It just seems to hang
> > forever some times. I found this article:
> >
> > http://sitening.com/blog/2006/02/03/apache-hangs-due-to-lack-of-entropy/
> >
> > and read the linked article, but my hardware doesn't support hw_random so I
> > can't use that solution.
> >
> > I did:
> >
> > # service random restart
> >
> > and now Apache seems to be working faster, but it could be a fluke because
> > sometimes it just works okay, and other times it doesn't.
> >
> > Any info or insight would be greatly appreciated. I've thought of just adding
> > a cron job that restarts random every 30 minutes or so...
>
> Karl - Without the hardware support I you have found the a good
> work-around.
>
> PS- regarding your 911 page - I worked on an NSA contract in 1985 or so
> - guess what story one of the old timers told me? :-)
>
> The US govt (The NSA) has known how to use commercial aircraft to take out
> skyscrapers for decades. They even know how to change the planes
> configurations to make it impossible. Simply don't have any door between
> the cockpit and the passenger compartment. The crew cabin gets its own
> exterior door.  Lot cheaper then funding DHS and the air marshals too.

That makes perfect sense. There would still be some vulnerability, but 
nothing like we see now.

Karl

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