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

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:07:34PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Ben Laurie writes:
> > I notice that events are also discarded when the queue reaches a
> > certain length. This seems like a problem, too.
> 
> Hooboy.
> 
> Please go back and read this whole thread from the beginning. Attempting
> to mitigate the inevitable effects of filling the harvest queue is the
> main thrust of what I'm trying to solve.

Why can't we split harvesting entropy from /dev/random from harvesting
entropy from sources that are much more performance-sensitive?
Currently random_harvest_internal() is used for both and it is trying to
be fast, as we don't want to slow down the caller. But with /dev/random
the caller won't mind to be slowed down.

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