Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > >> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:38:34 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote [...] > >> Unfortunately, sendmail isn't just a program, it's an API. Calling > >> /usr/lib/sendmail has been the way to get mail out (whereever out > >> is) in UNIX for, well, as long as sendmail exists, which is quite some > >> time. > > Yes, it seems odd that it bothers someone now when computers are orders of > > magnitude faster than when this scheme was designed. Disks aren't /that/ much faster, and are much bigger, so the access time has stayed roughly the same. [...] > Seems like doing an IO heavy task like this will no longer be much of > an issue with a parallel init type startup. Parallel init is still limited by IO-heavy tasks. All I've seen about "parallel service startup" is that is makes almost no difference. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
