It is a real gain. Many services sit there and wait for a network timeout, or other high-latency, low-disk activity. Annoying. Load the other, non-dependant services in the meanwhile. Head 'thrashing' due to multiple application access may cause some overall ineffiency, but it really depends on the ratio of disk activity to application latency. -Roberto JP On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:53 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:10, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > I am hearing much good from the gentoo camp about paralell startup, and > > how it brings down boot times to about 30 secounds. Is this possible to > > do with fedora as well? > > 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.
