On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Adam Majer] > > That could "save" a grand total of about a second. Also, during > > startup the bottleneck is the hard drive in many cases so starting > > concurrently might not speed up your boot process significantly. > > Do you have any good references document this fact? I've seen > articles documenting a speedup when things are started in parallell, > so I wounder where you got your information from.
I think the redhat people who are working on this are getting the most benefit from a large disk read-ahead, prior to the main services being started. If that accounted for the majority of speed-up, maybe it alone, and not a fragile parallel boot process too, would be sufficient for most people in need of a more efficient boot. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
