Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:58:42 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>, openrc@gentoo.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Atte_Peltom=E4ki?= <atte.peltomaki@iki.fi>
Subject:   Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)
Message-ID:  <CAGwOe2bGNoAKqjZBuTJ9hSFFOyHjuzvSD3WP-F3Q9JMX-icR0w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206190636100.1823@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <20120615124849.GI96212@ass.kameli.org> <CAKYr3zxSOFOUghqao=3U_8sBNHwqce8AGK6mSFd6is11qzjS8w@mail.gmail.com> <20120618081140.GK96212@ass.kameli.org> <4FDF6177.5050608@unsane.co.uk> <4FDF6586.9060501@gentoo.org> <4FDFB166.2040709@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206190636100.1823@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>> replacing rc.d, since that's almost certainly not relevant to the
>> original topic of improving the overall boot time.
>
>
> indeed.
>
>
>>
>> If you analyze the boot process thoroughly you should see that out of
>> the total time taken to boot, nearly 0 is spent by rc.d actually doing
>> something. Almost all of the actual time is spent waiting for other
>> stuff, either the kernel (primarily) or the services that the system is
>> running actually starting up.
>>
> most of boot time consist of
>
> - delay in bootloader. setting autoboot_delay can partially delay it, delay
> to zero can be achieved by patching first stage booter that too add delay
>
> - delay in kernel initialization. making custom kernel helps of course but
> still it takes eg 10 seconds on my laptop. putting things that are not
> needed instantly at boot - as module - may help. USB being prime example.
>
> - delay at rc.d scripts - there are some delays inserted.
>
>
>> The latter item is the only place where making changes to rc.d is going
>> to help, and only then by parellelizing, and even then you are not
>> really going to gain much since most things at boot time are serial.
>
>
> grep sleep /etc/rc.d/* usr/local/etc/rc.d/*
>
>
>>
>> So while talk of how to get your favorite boot-time manager into FreeBSD
>> may be entertaining, it's not likely to be productive, and almost
>
>
> it is unimportant as FreeBSD don't crash.

Please, re-read already sent mails in this thread about that statement so we
don't get stuck in a loop.

>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAGwOe2bGNoAKqjZBuTJ9hSFFOyHjuzvSD3WP-F3Q9JMX-icR0w>