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I'll quote a paragraph taken from arts technica about Mac OX X 10.2 "Jaguar" |
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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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TIA |
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from: Miguel Sousa Filipe (aka m3thos @ IRC) |
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'more human than human' |
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