Matthew Miller (mattdm(a)mattdm.org) said:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:21:05AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
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> -move starting some of slow things from rc.sysinit to a service, detect
> if they really needed early in rc.sysinit and then call/source the
> service script.
Having dependency info in the init scripts and running stuff in parallel
when possible might help here.
The last time this was tried, the total speedup was on the order of
10% or so. Perhaps it's changed, but it wasn't a extreme speedup.
Bill