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Comment by xyzzy123

6 hours ago

I had dup uuids causing soak test failures in a Linux based distributed system. After long investigation it turned out there was a kernel bug (race condition) that meant two processes on MP system reading from /dev/random at the same could (very rarely, like 1 in a million) get the same bytes when reading the device.

I'd look at rng initialisation first.

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