>> I'm currently at OLS and presented http://ds9a.nl/diskstat yesterday, which >> also references your ancient 'fboot' program. > >So checkout initng for your tests. It's a highly parallelized init >system which seriously speeds up boot. It also keeps the disks much >busier during boot and might help your testing.
Sharing my impression: The downside of parallelization within a runlevel change (to keep it general) is that the disk can get too active, and if you're starting/stopping a memory intensive process, you're almost stuck in swapping in and out because everyone wants a piece of mapped physram. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
