On Wednesday 20 October 2004 22:53, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > problem with parallel startup is that it *ALSO* increases how much > the disk has to seek, which slows things down. For me it's not clear > if it's actually a real gain or just a placebo one. It's a gain for those really long startup daemons. Maybe xfs has to recache its fonts, or maybe ntpdate is syncing with the time server. Then again, if Apache were written in a Bash script with all of its functions in separate script files and configuration spread out in different files and sourced in, parallelism would be an issue wouldn't it? I actually retooled this: http://www.fefe.de/minit/ for Redhat once and the results were just night and day. Of course, I didn't run kudzu or anything complicated like that. Just brought up the stuff I needed. You practically don't even need hibernate or sleep when you get it this good. (Doesn't help with X/GNOME/KDE startup, though) ;-) have fun, -- -jeff
