[clue-tech] initng

[Collins Richey]

On 11/23/05, Dennis J Perkins <dperkins at frii.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:51 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 11/23/05, dperkins at frii.com <dperkins at frii.com> wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried initng?  It's a replacement for init and is supposed to
> > > boot faster.
> > >
> >
> > Haven't seen it. Does it include a replacement for all the scripts
> > that come out of init? In which case, there would have to be a dozen
> > diofferent versions for all the distros.
> >
> > If it's just a replacement for the init process, I don't see how it
> > could have much effect of booting speed, since all the work is done in
> > the myriad scripts in /etc/init.d (or equivalent).
> >
> > Tell us more.
> >
> > --
> > Collins Richey
>
> I think it might run some of the bootscripts in parallel to speed up
> booting.  It won't speed up anything prior to initng's starting, of
> course.
>

Hmmm? How does it know what's safe to run in parallel? I'll have to do
some RTFM.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan
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