On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 05:35:17PM +0200, ULF wrote:
> Hello Devs,
>
> I followed, some time ago, the proposal of a user who suggested a diff for
> an "opt out" of KARL to be placed in /etc/rc.conf.local, proposal which
> which wasn't welcomed well.
>
> While agreeing that on servers and modern machines this is a great security
> feature which implies quite a small overhead, on the other side I am the
> owner of several old i386 boxen, mainly run just for hobby purposes for
> some hours a month, as, I could suppose, some other hobbists might do.
>
> On Pentium 3's every boot means at least 5-7 minutes wait to have a usable
> machine, while on lower end boxen 10 minutes were already a desirable
> target, because on first gen Pentiums the time is well above.
>
> This does not only meet pure number crunching, but, on old hardwares, also
> means extra stress for old disks which, especially on laptops, will become
> one day irreplaceable because of shortage. Not to consider extra
> electricity and time, whenever the machine needs a reboot.
>
> Maybe other old platforms, beyond i386, might be affected this way too.
>
> My question is:
>
> considering that an opt out option has been already turned down, could at
> least old architectures be benefited of a "delay" option e.g. like tune2fs
> sets a fsck every n-th boot, could KARL, just for very old machines be
> tuned, say, to be applied every 10/20 boots?
>
> Thank you very much for your attention.
> Ulf
I run
nice /usr/libexec/reorder_kernel &
And my landisk is usable from the start.
-Otto
