* Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ke, 2005-10-26 kello 12:39 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG kirjoitti: > > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In various discussions recently it has been suggested that it would be > > > a good idea (TM) to make the init.d scripts run in parallel. This > > > involves > > > using some tags from the new LSB and generally making explicit some > > > run-time dependencies that have had to be hacked to assumed in the > > > past. > > > > How does this help boot faster? Doesn't it just increase disk > > contention? > > Lots of things sleep a bit (or a long while in case the DHCP server is > slow) and meanwhile other things could easily be started, if they don't > depend on the sleeping thing.
Not to mention that quite a few things do things like DNS lookups which
could take quite a while for an unconnected system (perhaps because
something broke, or who knows what else, I've had it happen, waiting for
sendmail to time out sucks).
Stephen
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