Subject: Re: parallelization of rc.d
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar_Catri=E1n?= C. <ccatrian@eml.cc>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/13/2004 11:17:36
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:32:09 +0100 (BST)
David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:00:07AM +0400, Denis Lagno wrote:
> >  | > What do you think about this?
> >  |
> >  | I'd be much more happy if rc.d/rcorder machinery
> >  | supported issuing independent jobs in parallel.
> >
> > Do you have any cases where you think that this will make a
> > significant difference to the boot time of a system?
> 
>  	Not in the base, but pkgsrc/net/netatalk would be one. It can
>  	take a minute or so for the appletalk daemons to get their
>  	feathers sorted.
> -- 
>  		David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --

net/speedtouch is a case too. It takes one minute to load the microcode.