I know it has been asked before and may be redundant, but... You answered that cyrus-sasl is using /dev/urandom and should not run out of entropy. However, what about openssl itself? It also uses random numbers. Perhaps, as a test renaming /dev/random and ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random. Gary Mills wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:13:13PM +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > >> --On 16. November 2007 14:23:17 +0100 Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Did you ever see non SSL connections get stuck? >>> >> No. >> > > Most of mine are `pop3d -s', but I have seen a few without the `-s'. > When I did a stack trace on one, it also turned out to be for an SSL > session. So, I have to agree. > > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html