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I run Stein Devstack in a virtual machine. Occasionally, openstack 
client commands take minutes to complete, which didn't happen at earlier 
releases, and which is rather annoying. The delay seems to take place at 
an early stage: Even when I forget to set the OS_* environment, it takes 
minutes until I am told that the request requires authentication.

Interrupting the command, the stack trace confirms this (as a side 
remark, it also takes a long while until my ^C is processed):

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/bin/openstack", line 7, in <module>
     from openstackclient.shell import main
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openstackclient/shell.py", line 
22, in <module>
     from osc_lib.api import auth
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/osc_lib/api/auth.py", 
line 19, in <module>
     from keystoneauth1.loading import base
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystoneauth1/loading/__init__.py", 
line 13, in <module>
     from keystoneauth1.loading import adapter
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystoneauth1/loading/adapter.py", 
line 13, in <module>
     from keystoneauth1 import adapter
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystoneauth1/adapter.py", line 
17, in <module>
     from keystoneauth1 import session
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystoneauth1/session.py", line 
25, in <module>
     import requests
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/__init__.py", 
line 95, in <module>
     from urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", 
line 48, in <module>
     from cryptography.hazmat.backends.openssl import backend as 
openssl_backend
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/__init__.py", 
line 7, in <module>
     from cryptography.hazmat.backends.openssl.backend import backend
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py", 
line 2419, in <module>
     backend = Backend()
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py", 
line 119, in __init__
     self.activate_osrandom_engine()
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py", 
line 163, in activate_osrandom_engine
     with self._get_osurandom_engine() as e:
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__
     return self.gen.next()
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py", 
line 146, in _get_osurandom_engine
     res = self._lib.ENGINE_init(e)
KeyboardInterrupt

My wild speculation is that the delay has something to do with obtaining 
a random number, which can be a problem on virtual machines due to their 
lack of entropy. My knowledge in this area is paper-thin, though. And I 
wonder what happens to all the Devstacks used in CI?

Thus my questions: *Is the delay really caused by my running the cloud 
on a VM? What can I do to improve this?*

Thanks,

Bernd

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