diff --git a/src/server.c b/src/server.c
index 146e12954..565cd9467 100644
--- a/src/server.c
+++ b/src/server.c
@@ -6585,9 +6585,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     setlocale(LC_COLLATE,"");
     tzset(); /* Populates 'timezone' global. */
     zmalloc_set_oom_handler(redisOutOfMemoryHandler);
-    srand(time(NULL)^getpid());
-    srandom(time(NULL)^getpid());
+
+    /* To achieve entropy, in case of containers, their time() and getpid() can
+     * be the same. But value of tv_usec is fast enough to make the difference */
     gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);
+    srand(time(NULL)^getpid()^tv.tv_usec);
+    srandom(time(NULL)^getpid()^tv.tv_usec);
     init_genrand64(((long long) tv.tv_sec * 1000000 + tv.tv_usec) ^ getpid());
     crc64_init();