On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:27:33 +0300 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu,10.Sep.09, 21:09:21, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > It will enable makefile style concurrency, and run N scripts in > > > parallel during boot, where N is the number of CPUs or cores on > > > the machine. This only work when dependency based boot > > > sequencing. This > > > > So this is pointless on a single core machine? > > As someone mentioned on debian-devel, startpar in makefile mode is > invoked with '-p 4' which means 4 parallel tasks. I wonder - perhaps I'm missing something, but shouldn't parallel running of scripts be helpful even on single core machines, where one of the scripts is not CPU-bound but waiting on some external (e.g., network or hardware) event? Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
