On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:22:15PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > On 09/11/12 14:17, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:04:42PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > >> So if I was to implement the low grade part I'd remove the > >> variable names from the sysctl output at minimum. > > > > I've removed the MIB names in my latest diff (based on input from > > this thread): > > > > + ( dmesg; kenv; df -ib; \ + ps -fauxrH -o > > majflt,minflt,nivcsw,nvcsw,nwchan,re,sl,time; \ + sysctl -n > > kern.cp_times kern.geom kern.lastpid kern.timecounter \ + > > kern.tty_nout kern.tty_nin vm vfs debug dev.cpu; \ + date ) \ + > > | /sbin/sha256 -q | dd of=/dev/random bs=8k 2>/dev/null > > Hmm, but this sha256 run will turn the output to 65 bytes (hex > representation of 256 bits of hash output, 64 bytes, and one \n), so, > only 256 bits of random data, is that intentional?
At this point, yes. If we find better ways of condensing the output of the better_than_nothing() commands, we should do that instead. Even with the command list above, its way more than 4k of output. I got about 45k on my test machine. You suggested gzip, but I just don't know enough about compression algorithms as they apply in this area to know if we should use gzip instead or not. -- -- David ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
