From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 16:22:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E39916A49E for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:22:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F48113C481 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:22:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so1054838pyb for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:22:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; bh=/Yz5ahIsFELcRgA4+KPRD3bY83felunZYOk7DXQmeAQ=; b=QEVxHDluxn/JqzJ4bJuYzmZOLLWVFgZfimCd2dbEXY9zRDzokUeoQPtksEMKgGHh1GbAbuzPGvTYVeLjzUtleR1pINRhgW09wPXBxSqA8mTEkdIuEiOOT4UI3DlGebV6EZF6pwnc25lYdoYB/RoWp1rK/L4nXbpp2bgYUzGWyyg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; b=m6xFvcCejYNl3Q2y5UWe8q16NcK0HZQ6P62tg20UIr9ASeNPE8UpmNzNgRdJt093KsMHZQIxz+VxO4gFwVlVS9lq+i9dC8wGlE7gBv/EUjnQyi1uCYOy+QipK5Np4S9YnErDdXO4LfjcJrjYUc2kFL8IsUrpXCz1f+z3L3nMJAU= Received: by 10.64.242.5 with SMTP id p5mr4136314qbh.1193934121604; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.231.2 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:22:01 +0200 From: "David Naylor" Sender: naylor.b.david@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Google-Sender-Auth: f0510d2693e4b4e6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: rc and faster bootups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:22:36 -0000 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