Luke Macken (lmacken@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > I've been playing around with initng quite a bit lately and have had a > good amount of luck getting it running successfully on my rawhide laptop, a > VMWare test environment, and my FC4 desktop. Had a few issues right off the > bat, but eventually worked most of them out (thanks to the help of > Daniel Malmgren). I believe fedora related patches even hit their repos > as well. > > Here's what I've seen so far... > > initng - http://initng.thinktux.net > ====== > Pros > o Dynamic service dependencies > o Service monitoring > o Automatic respawning of services > o Parallelized service startup > o Plugin support > o Very active and helpful community > - Extremely open to getting initng working by default in Fedora > o Supports /etc/rc.* scripts via a plugin, but uses it's own format by > default (also supports xml init scripts via plugin) > o FAST AS HELL[0] > > Cons > o Gentoo look-and-feel (brings back old memories) > - Having such an open-minded community, giving initng a more > unified/professional feel would hopefully be accepted > o No inherent D-BUS support > - initng's plugin support would allow this to be accomplished (but I > would bring it up to the developers; who knows, they might want it > upstream?) One of the ideas was that eventually services would expose *themselves* over d-bus without wrappers, and that would be the native management framework. I'm not sure how that would fit into this model. It could be something to look at, though. > [0]: I generated bootcharts for a default FC4 install with minimal > tweaking (removed a few unnecessary services) and FC4 with a > default initng install. These are in no way supposed to be an accurate > measurement of the true speeds of either of these versions of init > (they are also both running different init scripts). > > http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/initng-bootchart.png > http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/SysVinit-bootchart.png Hm, comparing against a SysVinit bootup *without* rhgb might be interesting, as it's known that that adds to the startup time. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
