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>, 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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