Re: TODO for etch ?
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Adam Majer]
> > That could "save" a grand total of about a second. Also, during
> > startup the bottleneck is the hard drive in many cases so starting
> > concurrently might not speed up your boot process significantly.
>
> Do you have any good references document this fact? I've seen
> articles documenting a speedup when things are started in parallell,
> so I wounder where you got your information from.
I think the redhat people who are working on this are getting the most
benefit from a large disk read-ahead, prior to the main services being
started. If that accounted for the majority of speed-up, maybe it alone,
and not a fragile parallel boot process too, would be sufficient for
most people in need of a more efficient boot.
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