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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:04:47 -0400
From:      Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.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:  <4FE0086F.4000507@gentoo.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206190636100.1823@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On 06/19/2012 12:39 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> - 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.

OpenRC init scripts lack such delays. They store dependency information,
which enables OpenRC to start them as soon as their dependencies are ready.



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