Robert Giardalas said on Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:55:52PM -0400: > I had some preliminary modifications of the parallel loading system > proposed by James Hunt from IBM working for Debian, but it looked like > it would speed things up less than 10%, which wasn't enough to lure me > away from SysV, so I said it aside. I still have some of the files > around, if you want 'em. I don't subscribe to this list, though, so > email me directly.
I suspect that the improvement would be _very_ system dependent, though. For example, netatalk takes a _long_ time to start, and parallelizing would be a benefit. sendmail can take a while too, especially if you have DNS issues at boot time. I have to admit though; I just think it's neat. :) M
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