Re: faster boot

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 1066085358.22537.4.camel@pisces.woot.net>,
Joe Drew  <hoserhead@woot.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 06:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> However, if you read the paper in http://people.d.o/~hmh, and implement the
>> demultiplexer, we could probably modify one of the above methods to work
>> well, while we implement ours...
>
>After hearing your talk about init systems at debconf and reading your
>paper, I switched an embedded machine from using busybox init to
>simpleinit from util-linux, which supports 'need', 'provide', etc. It
>reduced the 70s boot time by approximately 10s.

Now that sysvinit has been split into 3 packages, it would be possible
to replace one part (sysv-rc) with something that does exactly that.

Mike.
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