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From: heroxbd@×××××.com
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] (draft) final report for OpenRC soc project 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:10:17
Message-Id: 86y5leaxhd.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-soc] (draft) final report for OpenRC soc project 2012 by Rich Freeman
1 Hi, Rich,
2
3 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:
4
5 > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:38 AM, <heroxbd@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> writes:
7 >>> Were is it? I'd like to read it =)
8 >>
9 >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
10 >>
11 >> And the "counter systemd" talk page,
12 >>
13 >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems
14 >
15 > Just a comment on this - OpenRC is listed as having parallel startup
16 > support, but I believe that this configuration is actually considered
17 > unsupported on Gentoo even if the code is there. I believe even the
18 > configuration options were removed from the config file to discourage
19 > their user (though if somebody happens to know about the option they
20 > can add it in and it will work.
21 >
22 > It is probably worth noting that this is an experimental feature in a
23 > comparison.
24
25 Thanks a lot for the comment. I agree. Nobody cares about the tiny (not
26 tested) booting up time gain with rc_parallel.
27
28 At present it is documented in rc.conf
29
30 ,----
31 | # Set to "YES" if you want the rc system to try and start services
32 | # in parallel for a slight speed improvement. When running in parallel
33 | # we prefix the service output with its name as the output will get
34 | # jumbled up.
35 | # WARNING: whilst we have improved parallel, it can still potentially
36 | # lock the boot process. Don't file bugs about this unless you can supply
37 | # patches that fix it without breaking other things!
38 | # rc_parallel="YES"
39 `----
40
41 I think it was "Parallel service startup - OpenRC - yes(buggy)" in wiki
42 before.
43
44 Cheers,
45 Benda

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Re: [gentoo-soc] (draft) final report for OpenRC soc project 2012 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>