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When this randomness is used up, you will encounter massive delays in the start and run time of flex.bi and other programs on your server, that's why we recommend using haveged.
Installing Haveged
To install Haveged on a Centos 8 OS, follow these instructions:
Add EPEL repository to your server following this instruction
Then install Haveged and start it:
Code Block yumsudo dnf install haveged systemctl enable haveged systemctl start haveged
To test the amount of available entropy, you can run the following command:
Code Block cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail