On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:05:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > If you want to test this feature in testing or unstable, use this > command: > > echo CONCURRENCY=makefile >> /etc/default/rcS > > It will enable makefile style concurrency, and run N scripts in > parallel during boot, where N is the number of CPUs or cores on the > machine.
That seems suboptimal. It occurs to me that initscripts are mostly I/O bound (since they need to start applications that then go waiting in the background), rather than CPU bound; as such, the number of initscripts that can be ran in parallel is more dependent on I/O speed than on CPU speed. It's probably best to make this N be a configurable variable (possibly defaulting to something based on something we detect from the system we're running on) rather than have it be something detected and not configurable. If it actually is configurable, but you just didn't tell us so, then please feel free to disregard this mail ;-) -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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