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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:16:02 +0100
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/random harvest.c randomdev_soft.c
Message-ID:  <6.0.1.1.1.20040416181256.03fa0ae0@imap.sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200404161707.i3GH7BgK094067@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200404161707.i3GH7BgK094067@repoman.freebsd.org>

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At 18:07 16/04/2004, Mark Murray wrote:
>  Default to harvesting everything. This is to help give a faster
>  startup. harvesting can be turned OFF in etc/rc.d/* if it is a
>  burden.

  Would it be reasonable perhaps to start by harvesting everything
and revert to selective harvesting after some minimum number of bits
have been obtained?

Colin Percival




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