On 06/18/2012 06:53 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > It's unfortunate that this thread evolved into a discussion about > replacing rc.d, since that's almost certainly not relevant to the > original topic of improving the overall boot time. > > If you analyze the boot process thoroughly you should see that out of > the total time taken to boot, nearly 0 is spent by rc.d actually doing > something. Almost all of the actual time is spent waiting for other > stuff, either the kernel (primarily) or the services that the system is > running actually starting up. > > The latter item is the only place where making changes to rc.d is going > to help, and only then by parellelizing, and even then you are not > really going to gain much since most things at boot time are serial. > > So while talk of how to get your favorite boot-time manager into FreeBSD > may be entertaining, it's not likely to be productive, and almost > certainly isn't going to help the goal of actually making the boot time > faster. > > But, I'm willing to be proven wrong by someone who actually _implements_ > one of these systems and can demonstrate, in a statistically rigorous > fashion, how much the boot time is improved. > > Doug
Doug, we already have OpenRC implemented. You can install Gentoo FreeBSD in a jail, install regular FreeBSD in another jail and do your own performance comparisons. Here are instructions: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD#Howto_run_G.2FFBSD_in_vanilla_FreeBSD.27s_jail Is there anything else that you need? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
