Bill Nottingham (notting@redhat.com) said:
- where are the benchmarks? What's the actual gain?
Not seeing any other benchmarks, I decided to test this.
Fairly standard box - P4, ata_piix, 1G memory. Stock desktop install, fully up to date with updates and updates-testing as of this afternoon.
A 'normal' boot to gdm is about 56.9 seconds. I installed prcsys, and edited the startup scripts to add LSB dependencies as attached.
I then booted with prcsys and parallel init. The new boot time was... 56.3 and 56.6 seconds.
So, for all this work, we get a 0.6%-1.1% speedup. Oh, and we get 62 AVCs from SELinux in the process. What's the point of this again?
- how would this be useful for the case where facilities that are provided are determined at runtime (say, NetworkManager providing $network instead of /etc/init.d/network, or $remote_fs being provided by either rc.sysinit or /etc/init.d/netfs, depending on configuration). Similarly, you may want a meta-dependency for 'authorization available', which would be at different times depending on whether or not you're using local passwords, KRB5, etc.
- does this work with dbus system activation?
I also don't see how it handles either of these.
Bill