Just in case someone hits this page. The solution is here: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-tomcat-native-1.1.10-and-tomcat-6.0.14... anonymous wrote : I think the problem in slow /dev/random | I generate in my init script random file : | /usr/bin/openssl rand -out $CATALINA_HOME/.rnd 2048 | | and then export RANDFILE environment variable , so I have next lines | in my startup.sh | RANDFILE="/opt/tomcat/.rnd" | export RANDFILE | | here is thread with that problem | http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=118190563608389&w=2 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204854#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...