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### Performance
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#### JVM startup
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Every invocation of `signal-cli ...` starts a Java Virtual Machine instance. This can take anywhere from a second to many time over that, depending on the system.
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To avoid it, signal-cli can be started as a daemon, with subsequent commands sent to it through DBus. See [using `dbus-send`](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/DBus-service#user-content-send-using-dbus-send).
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There is a also an experimental native library build using GraalVM that avoids JVM startup. See [GraalVM section in README](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/README.md#user-content-building-a-native-binary-with-graalvm-experimental)
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#### System entropy
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Some signal-cli's operations require that enough system entropy / randomness is available.
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Available entropy can be monitored with
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watch cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
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If it is hitting zero during `signal-cli ...` execution, signal-cli will block until enough entropy is available.
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System entropy is more likely to get depleted on headless servers. There are programs that allow to increase the amount of available entropy, e.g. [`haveged`](http://issihosts.com/haveged/).
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#### See also
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[#351](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/351#issuecomment-694871183) with links to past discussions.
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### Error parsing arguments
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$ signal-cli receive --output=json
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signal-cli: error: unrecognized arguments: '--output=json'
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The `--output=...` option needs to be in front of the `receive` subcommand:
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$ signal-cli --output=json receive
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This is [Argparse4j](https://argparse4j.github.io/)'s behavior.
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### DBus errors when starting daemon
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See [Troubleshooting DBus](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/DBus-service#user-content-troubleshooting).
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