svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 13 19:19:38 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:00:19PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> I'm in favour of doing something
> to "dribble" the startup suff in, while limiting its length to (say)
> 1-2 K.  Compressing the gathered stuff is a good idea, and inserting
> that *first* with a delay following would be ideal; 1 second would be
> sufficient, 2 safer if the machine very busy. After that "chunking" the
> cached stuff and easing it in slowly would be a Good Thing(tm).

Mark,
Can you add more about your reasoning why the low-grade entropy should be
input before the high-quality cached entropy?

thanks,
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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