Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:22:01 +0200 From: "David Naylor" <blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rc and faster bootups Message-ID: <b53f6f940711010922y5f4cf17exa449b3f4d0bfe298@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi I've been looking into speeding the FreeBSD bootup speed (currently on my laptop it is sitting at 2 minutes with autologin with KDE). One thing I noticed is the option of rc_fast_and_loose which did not work... My first question: is there any reason that rc_fast_and_loose is still around since many scripts simply don't work with it or should someone try clean up the scripts instead? Running FreeBSD on a SMP machine it still only runs a sequential boot process. Is it possible (and is someone working on it) to run the startup scripts in parallel. I have been looking into it and managed to write (in python, just proof of concept) rcorder replacement that outputs sufficient information in order to run the boot scripts in parallel. If someone is willing to mentor me I am eager to continue my investigation. Thank you. David
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