Paralell startup

[Roberto Peon]

It is a real gain. Many services sit there and wait for a network timeout, or 
other high-latency, low-disk activity. 

 Annoying. Load the other, non-dependant services in the meanwhile.
Head 'thrashing' due to multiple application access may cause some overall 
ineffiency, but it really depends on the ratio of disk activity to 
application latency.

-Roberto JP

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:53 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:10, 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?
>
> problem with parallel startup is that it *ALSO* increases how much the
> disk has to seek, which slows things down. For me it's not clear if it's
> actually a real gain or just a placebo one.