IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:21:05AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> [snip snip snip, here and throughout]
> > -move starting some of slow things from rc.sysinit to a service, detect 
> > if they really needed early in rc.sysinit and then call/source the 
> > service script.
> 
> Having dependency info in the init scripts and running stuff in parallel
> when possible might help here.

The last time this was tried, the total speedup was on the order of
10% or so. Perhaps it's changed, but it wasn't a extreme speedup.

Bill