Arthur Pemberton <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:38:34 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote
[...]
>> Unfortunately, sendmail isn't just a program, it's
an API. Calling
>> /usr/lib/sendmail has been the way to get mail out (whereever out
>> is) in UNIX for, well, as long as sendmail exists, which is quite some
>> time.
> Yes, it seems odd that it bothers someone now when computers are
orders of
> magnitude faster than when this scheme was designed.
Disks aren't /that/ much faster, and are much bigger, so the access time has
stayed roughly the same.
[...]
Seems like doing an IO heavy task like this will no longer be much
of
an issue with a parallel init type startup.
Parallel init is still limited by IO-heavy tasks. All I've seen about
"parallel service startup" is that is makes almost no difference.
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