Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time on the
> > kernel side when the most obvious user space problem is ignored.
> 
> What user space problem is that?

That init scripts with no interdependencies are run sequentially rather
than in parallel.

There was an article from IBM a while back with a neat hack that used a
parallel make to fire off groups of init scripts in parallel.  I would
expect more interest in this from the distros.

Lee

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