How Do I Fix Random Oracle Login Connection Timeouts?

On Linux systems the Oracle JDBC driver has a login dependency on the random number generator “/dev/random”. Under certain circumstances, the “/dev/random” generator can take an inordinate amount of time to generate a random number — this can cause unpredictable timeouts when logging into Oracle.

• See this article for the technical details.

CopyStorm releases after 8.40.1 patch 28-Nov-2017 have fixed this problem internally. If you are on an earlier release, this article describes how to fix the issue.

Open the CopyStorm.sh script in a text editor and add the flag “-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom” to the command that launches CopyStorm.

For example, in our tests we added this flag using the following changes to the CopyStorm.sh script:

RAND=
if [ -e “/dev/urandom” ]; then
RAND=”-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom”
fi

“$JAVA” -cp “$MYROOT/lib/*” $RAND -Dcopystorm.root=”$MYROOT” -Dhttps.protocols=”$MYPROTOCOLS” $MYAPPLICATION -license $MYLICENSE $*

If you are not familiar with Linux scripting, the changes say:

• Set the local RAND variable to blank.
• If the system has the faster “/dev/urandom” character device:
  • Set the RAND variable to the Java setting which will make Java’s random number generator use “/dev/urandom”.
• Add the RAND variable to the Java command that launches CopyStorm.