Parallel Booting

[Florian Festi]

Till Maas wrote:
> On Mo Juli 9 2007, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> 
>> Friday 06 of July 2007 18:18:04 Harald Hoyer napisał(a):
>>> (...)
>>> With:
>>>
>>> S12syslog
>>> (...)
>>> S99local
>>>
>>> /etc/rc.d/rc takes:
>>> 8.5s in normal mode
>>> 6s in parallel startup
>>>
>>>
>>> so for me thats 140% speedup :)
>> Hmm.....
>> ((8.5-6)/8.5)*100 = 29.4%
> 
> You calculated the the reduction of boottime.
> 
> I would calculate the speedup this way:
> 
> Bootspeed = 1/(Time to boot)
> 
> normal speed = 10/85
> parralel startup speed = 10/60
> 
> Speedup in percent: 10/60 / 10/85 * 100 = 141.67 %

Speed is 141.67 % of the old speed which gives a 41.67 speedup. The old 
speed is the reference aka 1 aka 100%.

140% speedup is more than twice as fast.

Florian