Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I need is something it can't handle, like Udev for several months a >> year ago, or a new booting scheme... > > This is actually something I want to bring up. Our booting is dog > slow. Maybe it's time to look into making improvements. We could > replace init with init-ng or upstart. Or, we could just work to > parallelize the bootscripts like is done on RedHat and SuSE. I think > this has been brought up before.
Timezones mean that I see the whole Yankee thread before replying at all.... :-) When I moved from using sysvinit to runit, a couple of years ago, the main reason I did it was to speed up booting. I still use LFS bootscripts for the (rcsysinit list) initialisation actions, but call them from the runit start script 1 (and on shutdown from the runit closedown script 3). This means that those actions are done in serial, so there is no speed-up. For then on in, however, starting of services takes place in parallel, including starting xdm (I don't run any gettys anymore). This does give me a significant speed-up to login widget, but the most time is waiting for X to start-up. X start up, I've discovered, is very dependent on how much groping it has to do. Removing 'auto' from the mouse protocol, saves 5 seconds, for instance on one of my systems. I have not yet found out how to stop it trying all the modes to see which work, even though I include mode lines. This is a fruitful field of study, I think. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
