Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jul 2007 13:23 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
"Fedora 8 is currently under development and is scheduled for release in November of this year (2007). This is a quick overview of the proposed features. As these are proposed features and it is still about 4 months from release some of these will change."
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Member since:2005-07-06
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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2005-08-09
Possible steps to enhance boot startup:
The only way to make it fast is to execute actions in parallel.
Right now boot is serial and wastes 99% of cpu speed.
Linux boot time is insanely slow.
Edited 2007-07-17 17:59