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
