initng on Hoary (with bootcharts)

[Ruben Vermeersch]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 09:37 -0700, Jason Toffaletti wrote:
> bootchart is setup correctly. I had those services turned off during
> that initng boot because I didn't need them at the time as I was testing
> changes to scripts. I ran bootchart several times and in at at least one
> of my tests I had most of those other services started (powernowd,
> postfix, atd, cron) with initng and it actually took less time than the
> chart you see because everything wasn't waiting on fsck. Those
> bootcharts represent the fastest normal Hoary and the slowest initng
> boots I got. If you're worried about this being the end-all be-all
> benchmark comparison, don't. This is more of a, "Hey look, I got initng
> working on Ubuntu"
> 
> I agree initng doesn't solve the core problems, which doesn't make it
> the ideal long term solution. However, it is here now, the source code
> is relatively simple and GPL, and it doesn't take much effort to port
> existing sysvinit scripts to it. I think it makes a nice interim
> solution to cut boot time in half.

+1 from me then, not that I've got any voice anyway :-)


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