Paralell startup

Tim Daly daly at rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Wed Oct 20 12:55:38 UTC 2004


>> I am hearing much good from the gentoo camp about paralell startup, and
>> how it brings down boot times to about 30 secounds. Is this possible to
>> do with fedora as well?
>
>Gentoo, instead of numeric order of service startup which we have in
>fedora, implements service dependencies. With dependencies it is pure
>implementation detail to have system startup in parallel.
>
>I doubt if anyone with @redhat.com suffix will consider reworking
>initscripts to mind service dependencies ...

sure sounds like a job for makefile. even with numbered tasks it should
be possible to construct a makefile that would handle it. indeed, i
believe pmake will handle the parallelization issues.

Tim Daly




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