Proposed fix; stage 1 (Was: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d)
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Mon Sep 17 00:23:46 UTC 2012
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:27:34 -0700
Doug Barton wrote:
> Finally, I still think that making changes to the entropy-feeding
> methods in initrandom or random are premature until we have a chance
> to review Arthur's work on what's actually happening with the buffer.
> Until we know where the problems are, we're only guessing as to what
> the fixes should be.
The results are likely to be dependent on hardware, so it's going to
be difficult to get a complete picture.
In particular I'd suggest pre-caching ls and /entropy to simulate very
fast flash drives.
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