Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jul 2007 13:23 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
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Parallelization is mentioned on the link I posted but is not a magic bullet. Quoted from the link:
The other aspect of bootup speed is parallelization. Initially, this seems like a big win. However, testing of simple naive implementations show that, at least initially, parallelization isn't a huge benefit. Generally, this is because disk seek time and other I/O limitations can dominate. Moreover, a not insignificant portion of boot time is the parts handled by /etc/rc.sysinit; this is almost entirely linear in nature (need to load modules first, then check filesystems, then clean out /tmp, etc.)
Without proper handling of dependencies from services at boot startup, parallelization is useless.






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2005-07-06
Already addressed under FCNewInit:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit
Possible steps to enhance boot startup:
- Clean up all initscripts
- Clean up /etc/init.d/functions
- Replace /etc/rc
- Make gdm/prefdm an initscript with early login
- D-Bus support