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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:19:37 -0700
From:      David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <20120913191936.GA36319@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1TCEeB-000InE-N6@groundzero.grondar.org>
References:  <20120906230157.5307a21f@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120906224703.GD89120@x96.org> <20120907015157.GA29497@server.rulingia.com> <20120910135218.GA68128@dragon.NUXI.org> <504E343A.4020802@FreeBSD.org> <20120911064636.GB72584@dragon.NUXI.org> <504EE446.6060500@FreeBSD.org> <20120911082309.GD72584@dragon.NUXI.org> <20120912104547.1d0061c1@gumby.homeunix.com> <E1TCEeB-000InE-N6@groundzero.grondar.org>

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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,
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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