Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On 2/20/07, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Bryan Kadzban wrote: >>>> On the topic of parallelizing the bootscripts, what do people think >>>> about doing this? DJ has added some easily-parallelizable scripts to >>>> the contrib/ directory in the bootscripts repo (basically, by making >>>> them LSB compliant, you make them easy to run in parallel). Should we >>>> look into making these scripts the default, perhaps for LFS 6.4 or 7? >>>> (And should we actually run them in parallel or not?) >>>> >>> I'm all for parallelizing the boot scripts. The only thing I'm having a >>> hard time getting my head around is updating the screen with the status. >> +1 here, too, so long as they can be proved reliable, etc. I haven't >> gotten around to playing with DJ's scripts, but I will soon. > > I guess I still don't understand the need for this. I just did a test > on my laptop and it took 18 seconds from the time I pushed enter from > grub to a login prompt. This included udev, dbus, hal, sshd, nfsd, but > not X, ntp, or bringing up my wifi card. > > If I cut the boot time in half and rebooted my system seven times a day > (I rarely boot it more than twice, normally once.), I will save one minute. > > If this is done for the challenge, I can understand that, but I don't > think that the the benefit is significant. > > -- Bruce
Dan's OP was 'use dash to speed up booting' (over-compressed over-simplification). I said you'd do better by parallelising the service start ups. Nothing here that says it's at all worth while to do either really. It's an intellectual exercise! R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
