Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:06:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Times Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206131603420.11871@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206122051300.4356@wonkity.com> References: <4FD66F7E.2060404@brandonfa.lk> <71dc991c8d1b4d2c91ff942fc5f8f340@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu> <4FD7CA24.6080405@gentoo.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206122051300.4356@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Richard Yao wrote: > >> Gentoo FreeBSD shares OpenRC with Gentoo Linux. OpenRC is a BSD 2-clause >> licensed System V init system replacement that supports parallel boot. >> Its boot performance is competitive with systemd and Ubuntu's upstart. >> >> If FreeBSD's init system is serializing the boot process, it might be >> worthwhile to consider importing OpenRC. > > There have been at least two attempts to parallelize the rc scripts. The more > recent one was posted on the forums. AFAIR, one advantage it had was no or > few changes to the rc scripts, and something like 40% improvement in startup > time. I'll post a link if I can find it. > > Startup time is a big deal for notebooks. Thanks to pointers from forum members and moderators, links to various attempts to improve startup time: An older attempt in -current: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/rc-improvements-wanted-td3911390.html The forums post: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25822 And a newer effort from the PC-BSD folks which sounds very promising: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.pcbsd.testing/6225
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