Init : someone could comment this ?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Jan 7 19:29:02 UTC 2008
Casey Dahlin (cjdahlin at ncsu.edu) said:
> Its not the fork or exec per se. It is the disk IO associated with loading
> the binary images. Normally this isn't too much of an issue, but in the
> highly IO-sensitive init process it can cause huge issues. Remember, seek
> time is the big issue with disk IO, so size of data to load is not the
> metric to go by.
So, switch to a storage metaphor that doesn't penalize seeks.
While that's somewhat of a joke, you do want to avoid over-optimizing for what
may not be the common case.
Bill
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