Top shows rngd using 79% CPU

Andrew Geissler geissonator at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 22:23:54 AEST 2019


On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 6:31 AM Andrew MS1 Peng <pengms1 at lenovo.com> wrote:
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> Hi Team,
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> Top is showing that rngd(random number generator daemon) is using high CPU usage in our machine as below. I download the romulus image from Jenkins and ran it in QEMU environment and it had the same situation, how should I do to avoid or fix it?

Should have a fix soon. https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3574

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> Load average: 1.99 2.16 1.05 2/101 1297
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>   PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
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>   109     1 root     RN   12716   3%  79% /usr/sbin/rngd -f -r /dev/hwrng
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> Thanks,
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> Andrew


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