On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Alexander Hall <ha...@openbsd.org> wrote: > Lars Nooden wrote: >> I don't need it currently. >> >> I did get good benefits out of it with some embedded devices I used to >> need frequently. It made start up noticeably faster on a pair of >> net4801 boxes that ran (mostly) only dhcpd + pf + ftp via inetd >> YMMV > > Seriously, how much time did you gain every reboot? 15 secs? And how > often did you really reboot those boxes? Frequent power outages?
I'm certainly not defending the use-case for this program/script, but, 15 seconds per boot is quite a bit of time. Don't think "servers", think laptops. If one powers on/off their laptop two times a day, ignoring weekends, over the span of a year that is amounts to over two hours. --patrick > > And how does that time compare to the time fiddling with dmassage? > > Now, I won't tell you how to spend your time. Fiddling with stuff can be > fun. I just do not see any reason for making your system more complex > for virtually no gain. > > /Alexander > >> >> Now I wanted to see if it worked with a more complex set up. It didn't. >> >> The biggest bottleneck right on the new system is netstart which goes >> and tries to get a dhcp lease first, before starting the interfaces with >> static addresses. Proposing a fix for netstart.sh is not likely because >> the tools for that kind of thing appear to be in /usr/bin not /bin. The >> work around seems to be to not bring up the interfaces that use dhcp >> until rc.local is run. > > Again, many reboots? ;-) > > /Alexander
