Future New Init for FC7?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 06:58:36 UTC 2007


On 4/3/07, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> writes:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 22:27 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >> By using dynamic dependencies and an event driven design, you avoid
> >> running most init scripts altogether.
>
> > I'm just saying that don't expect that switching to Upstart will
> > magically cut 10-15 seconds of your boot time.
>
> I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that sounded like voodoo
> economics.
>
> I think our problems are much more localized than that.  In my personal
> environment, the single biggest boot-time problem is that netatalk takes
> friggin forever (~ 1 min) to sync with an existing Appletalk seed router.
> But I don't reboot my Fedora machines often enough to make it worth my
> time to track it down ...
>
>                         regards, tom lane

Maybe the current system should at least be modded to give logged,
time information. So sysadmins can make more educated decisions.

-- 
Fedora Core 6 and proud




More information about the devel mailing list