On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:32 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
OTOH, why is this even a sub-topic in this sub-topic of a thread?
I'd
love to see some numbers from the complainers about scripting being
slow. I have a normal Fedora 13 x86_64 system that boots through
initscripts in under 10 seconds. Normal services are starting as I have
not "tweaked" my service list. Unless Fedora needs a 1 second boot time
(hey I wouldn't complain) do we really need to spend time on 100+ email
threads and jump through multiple init systems to find that perfect
solution? I've read similar claims of salvation when upstart was being
marketed to replace SysVinit. "Everyone will switch to native scripts
and everything will be better!" Has everyone switched to native upstart
scripts? AFAIK - No. Will everyone switch to systemd native scripts? I'm
betting - no.
My anecdotal evidence is up the same alley, FWIW - I have a system with
a rather fast SSD in it and it completes the entire boot process, on
F13, in 13 seconds or so. Which rather indicates that scripts aren't
wasting a significant amount of time, and a lot of the time lost on more
conventional systems is waiting for disk access.
Has anyone run bootchart on Fedora lately? I remember we did something
of a co-ordinated effort on it in F11, but I don't think it's happened
on F12 or F13. That would give us an indication of where our startup
bottlenecks *actually* are. Maybe I'll throw up a blog post on that
later today, I have three rather different F13 systems to do it on now.
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