Re: [PATCH v20] GSSAPI encryption support

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> >> So I'm a bit surprised that it's taking 4 minutes for you.  I wonder if
> >> there might be an issue related to the KDC wanting to get some amount of
> >> random data and the system you're on isn't producing random bytes very
> >> fast..?
>
> > Not sure.  This is my usual development box and it also does mail, DNS,
> > etc for my household, so I'd expect it to have plenty of entropy.
> > But it's running a pretty old kernel, and old Kerberos too, so maybe
> > the explanation is in there somewhere.
>
> Same test on a laptop running Fedora 28 takes a shade under 5 seconds.
> The laptop has a somewhat better geekbench rating than my workstation,
> but certainly not 50x better.  And I really doubt it's got more entropy
> sources than the workstation.  Gotta be something about the kernel.
>
> Watching the test logs, I see that essentially all the time on the RHEL6
> machine is consumed by the two
>
> # Running: /usr/sbin/kdb5_util create -s -P secret0
>
> steps.  Is there a case for merging the two scripts so we only have to
> do that once?  Maybe not, if nobody else sees this.

I do think that mergeing them would be a good idea and I can look into
that, though at least locally that step takes less than a second..  I
wonder if you might strace (or whatever is appropriate) that kdb5_util
and see what's taking so long.  I seriously doubt it's the actual
kdb5_util code and strongly suspect it's some kernel call.

Thanks!

Stephen