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On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 07:14, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: |
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> I'll quote a paragraph taken from arts technica about Mac OX X 10.2 "Jaguar" |
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> <begin> |
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> Boot time is substantially faster in Jaguar, thanks largely to its |
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> ability to start services in parallel, provided there are no |
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> dependencies between them (e.g. network time synchronization can't start |
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> until the network is up.) This is especially helpful when one of the |
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> startup items takes a long time to complete (e.g. requesting an IP |
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> address from a busy DHCP server.) Rather than blocking the entire boot |
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> sequence while waiting for this long-running task to complete, Jaguar |
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> will continue to launch other independent services. |
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> <end> |
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> This should not be very dificult to do with the gentoo booting sequence. |
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> Calling the scripts with the '&' in the end of the comman should to the |
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> trick I believe. And shouldn't ever make the boot process longer than a |
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> streamlined one.. (theoretically i guess). |
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> Also all smp machines and users would wellcome such feature. |
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> My request is... please put this in gentoo 1.4 ... or at least discuss |
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> this, because if there are any second effects or technical dificulties |
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> in implementing it would be nice so see this debated.. |
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Ok, so when last did you compare out bootup time to say Redhat ? :P |
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I had to install redhat this week to get drivers for Intel 845G (xfree) |
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compiled, and man ... its slooow. |
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Also, adding the meganism to to start things in parallel, do checks to |
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wat is finished, and what should be started (scheduler), could prove to |
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be much more overhead then there is already. Guess you could do it in C |
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or something, but that will make it less transparent and more difficult |
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to maintain. |
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> TIA |
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> from: Miguel Sousa Filipe (aka m3thos @ IRC) |
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> 'more human than human' |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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