On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:08 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
>       Compile network driver statically in the kernel (i.e. not as
> module). Boot kernel. Verify that event is lost. That's number 2.


Have you verified this yourself?


>       Every little count, that's the death by a thousand cuts.


You are claiming that one shell process running sleep per interface is
significant overhead?


>  I can
> tell you that on my 400MHz box, Testing is booting much slower than
> Stable. Obviously, It's very hard to pinpoint the blame, but I can see
> that hotplug seems to take some time.


Make net.agent run net.ifup with "nice" and see if it makes any
difference to your boot times.  ;)


>       Synchronisation is not necessary.


It is necessary to delay ifups until after S:S40networking, even though
hotplug events come earlier.  That is what I meant.



>       Actually, I forgot that ifup already verify if it's enabled or
> not.


I believe that the current unstable ifup program doesn't verify that.


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Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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