Comment 2 for bug 662519

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Gary Poster <email address hidden> wrote:
> For my own notes, I suppose: The use of /dev/random is done once for
> seeding a module global, so dnspython is not using it indiscriminately.
> That said, if there's not enough entropy, there's not enough entropy.  A
> way to switch the module to urandom (or just time, even) for tests would
> be nice.

Does it do this in production? If so we should start recording how
long it takes - its possible (have done it before) to exhaust
dev/random on production, and *then* things really get hairy. Remember
we're looking at 16-32 instances starting up in very short order in
the branch new world.

-Rob