On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:42, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two > > alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? > > > > > > Thank you in advance , Jerry > > I have tried initng several months ago. It rocks. It's several times > faster then the "normal" init. The problem at the time was there were no > scripts for everything I wanted to start automatically. So one day I > figured out that writing scripts and using faster init takes me more > time then using slower init which works with almost no maintenance. This > made me go back to the normal init. I have to say that while using > initng I noticed that many scripts were added for a relatively short > time. It is possible that now there are initng scripts for most of the > services one would ever use, but you have to check it out for yourself. > > I can't say a word about "runit", because it's the first time I read > about it. > > My next experiment for speeding the boot up will be fcache, but I'm > waiting for a proper mood to try it ( it means: "I'm too lazy" ) >
Hi Daniel, Fcache works, but we didn't see the performance boost that going to initng gave. Since it requires it's very own ext3 partition to work, plus a kernel patch... we dropped it. Using initng is the ticket... Maybe the gentoo devs will directly support it or a variant someday... Cheers, Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
