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On FreeBSD, certain operations (especially svnadmin create) sometimes hang. Why?

April 26, 2017certain create especially FreeBSD hang operations

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On FreeBSD, certain operations (especially svnadmin create) sometimes hang. Why?

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This is usually due to a lack of available entropy on the system. You probably need to configure the system to gather entropy from sources such as hard-disk and network interrupts. Consult your system manpages, specifically random(4) and rndcontrol(8) on how to effect this change.