IDEA: Shortening boot-time

David Nielsen dnielsen at breakmygentoo.net
Fri Jul 23 19:48:06 UTC 2004


There's no need to mock a 10% speed up, unless there are serious issues
with it I think 10% is worth it.

- David

On fre, 2004-07-23 at 15:28 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > The last time this was tried, the total speedup was on the order of
> > 10% or so. Perhaps it's changed, but it wasn't a extreme speedup.
> 
> Yeah, I remember that. But hey, I'll take 10%. And it's probably somewhat
> more on SMP and hyperthreading system.
> 
> And really, speedup and parallelization is only an incidental benefit --
> it'd be nice for services to know what they need before they start, rather
> than depending on magic number ordering.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>
> 
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