From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Seyfried Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:15:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release Message-Id: <4212121B.807@suse.de> List-Id: References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> <420C054B.1070502@downeast.net> <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050214231605.GA13969@suse.de> <1108423715.32293.2.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1108423715.32293.2.camel@krustophenia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lee Revell Cc: Prakash Punnoor , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Patrick McFarland , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > That init scripts with no interdependencies are run sequentially rather > than in parallel. > > There was an article from IBM a while back with a neat hack that used a > parallel make to fire off groups of init scripts in parallel. I would > expect more interest in this from the distros. You can boot a SUSE 9.2 with parallel init scripts (default AFAIR), sequential init scripts and with a Makefile based solution. "Normal" (not Makefile based) parallel booting is possible much longer on SUSE, at least since 9.0 IIRC. And guess what? "Parallel booting" alone, regardless of the mechanism does not make much of a difference for the boot time. Stefan ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel