Performance testing (pass 1)

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon Sep 29 11:07:00 UTC 2003


>>For this reason, I'm quite interested in the possibility, in future, of 
>>integrating a parellised rcS/run-parts to allow the execution of 
>>multiple non-interdependent boot processes at the same time. This would 
>>be especially handy when one is waiting on disk I/O while another is 
>>thrashing the CPU, etc.
> 
> The problem is that then *all* your parallel processes will most likely
> be waiting on disk I/O, then. :)

True. OTOH, especially with nice things like TCQ-capable SATA disks on 
the horizon, that might not be such a bad thing. It'd be an interesting 
thing to try out ... I might have a fiddle and see what happens.

Craig Ringer





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