Startup needs overhaul

Øivind Hoel oivind.hoel at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 05:58:18 CDT 2005


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FasterBoot


On 8/10/05, Zach <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hasn't Red Hat been doing this for a while?  Not sure about this, so I
> could be wrong.  But I do remember reading a post on a mailing list or
> forum from one of the Red Hat devs about doing this that was a few
> years old (2002/3?).
> The general idea was to identify dependency chains in the init
> scripts.  Then run multiple dependency chains simultaneously.  So, for
> example there are clearly things that are not dependent on networking,
> so they could go ahead and initialize while networking is waiting on a
> dhcp lease.
> Not sure if this could be done without major changes to init itself,
> though.  I'm thinking that init could fire off a master script that
> would manage the rest of the scripts.
> It may be worth looking into whether Red Hat or anyone else has been
> doing this already and how...
> 
> Zach
> 
> On 8/10/05, HC Brugmans <hcbrugmans at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Robert Fleming wrote:
> > > Need to clear up startup process and thread it so it doesn't take for
> > > ever to start up a machine once install process is complete.  I have
> > > been using it for several weeks.  Can't stand waiting on boot..
> > >
> > >
> > It might be a good idea to let us know if you have any ideas,
> > suggestions or constructive comments on how to improve this, rather than
> > just voice your complaint this way.
> >
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