Paralell startup
James Harrison
jamesaharrisonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Oct 19 17:50:41 UTC 2004
> longer boot times don't matter because they only boot their servers once
> a year.
..... Or wont use Fedora in favor of RHEL.
--- Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:10 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > I am hearing much good from the gentoo camp about paralell startup, and
> > how it brings down boot times to about 30 secounds. Is this possible to
> > do with fedora as well?
>
> Yes, and we should do it. However, it requires lots of changes to the
> initscripts :)
>
> There are a number of projects that have done parallel startup on *NIX
> machines. I believe one or two of the BSD variants use parallel startup
> and dependencies in their scripts. Seth Nickell has some writeups on a
> new startup script architecture as well.
>
> Nobody is making the noise necessary to do anything about anything
> though. Somebody needs the time and energy to champion this cause. The
> current Fedora initscripts packages are also very, very nasty and not
> well split out by function. You'll encounter resistance too from people
> who don't care about Desktop OS stuff under Linux and who think that
> longer boot times don't matter because they only boot their servers once
> a year.
>
> Dan
>
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