On Wednesday 06 June 2007 09:44 pm, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > Someone with whom I'm working here in Virginia said that there is > some Debian program that he thought rapidly decreased boot time by > parallelizes the start up scripts. > > Anyone know what that is? I just thought it was something like > changing "startup $i start" to "startup $i start &" in the > /etc/init.d/rc file.
I don't know the name of the package(s), but you can read up on the technique here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html It's not as simple as adding the "&", because certain procedures in the startup require that other procedures are finished first. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-7540, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
