Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Greg KH
2005-02-14T23:16:27Z

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:04:00PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:51 +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > Paolo Ciarrocchi schrieb:
> > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:06:51 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>All distros are trying to reduce boot time.
> > >>
> > >>They certainly aren't all trying very hard. Debian and Fedora (last
> > >>time I checked) do not even run the init scripts in parallel.
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there any distro that is running the init scripts in parallel ?
> >
> > Gentoo.
> >
>
> Last I heard Gentoo does not even do it by default.

Gentoo doesn't do much "by default" :) But it is an option.

> I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time on the
> kernel side when the most obvious user space problem is ignored.

What user space problem is that?

thanks,

greg k-h