On Sat, Jul 27, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Bernd Bausch wrote: snip > 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? All of the test VMs run haveged. We preinstall that on our images: https://opendev.org/openstack/project-config/src/commit/e02cdfa1f489838aa2bb4b449467c0ac4d83645f/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/package-installs.yaml#L29 > > 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 >