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Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:42, Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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>> Jerry McBride wrote: |
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>>> Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two |
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>>> alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? |
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>>> Thank you in advance , Jerry |
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>> I have tried initng several months ago. It rocks. It's several times |
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>> faster then the "normal" init. The problem at the time was there were no |
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>> scripts for everything I wanted to start automatically. So one day I |
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>> figured out that writing scripts and using faster init takes me more |
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>> time then using slower init which works with almost no maintenance. This |
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>> made me go back to the normal init. I have to say that while using |
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>> initng I noticed that many scripts were added for a relatively short |
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>> time. It is possible that now there are initng scripts for most of the |
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>> services one would ever use, but you have to check it out for yourself. |
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>> I can't say a word about "runit", because it's the first time I read |
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>> about it. |
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>> My next experiment for speeding the boot up will be fcache, but I'm |
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>> waiting for a proper mood to try it ( it means: "I'm too lazy" ) |
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> Hi Daniel, |
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> Fcache works, but we didn't see the performance boost that going to initng |
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> gave. Since it requires it's very own ext3 partition to work, plus a kernel |
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> patch... we dropped it. |
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> Using initng is the ticket... Maybe the gentoo devs will directly support it |
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> or a variant someday... |
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> Cheers, Jerry |
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Thanks, Jerry |
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I appreciate this info about fcache. Now I have a good idea of what I |
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have to expect. |
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I've got some unpartitioned space and nothing prevents me to do some |
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tests. The only question that I have is how much space does fcache need? |
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BTW, the "ck-sources", which can be found in the portage comes with |
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several performance related patches. Emerge automatically applies these |
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patches and fcache is among them. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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