Hello everyone, It seems that the boot process could be accelerated somehow by using serel (http://fastboot.org). The basic idea is: you can run in parallel the initialization of some services, especially those who have to wait for something external.
The prerequisite: you have to describe dependencies between services. Parallel build using make are really useful. Similarly, several services rely on other, and we can start network first, others while it waits, instead of starting one by one and wait several seconds with the machine completely idle while waiting in sequence for the startup of all services. It was mentioned very briefly, but not discussed on Cooker list, Google returns nothing relevant while searching "cooker serel", and the RPMS in 9.0 don't mention it, so I can assume that it's not used in 9.0 even if I haven't tested 9.0 yet. I lack time for this in this period. Would someone like to test drive serel http://www.fastboot.org/ on Mandrake ? If, as it says, it accelerates the boot process, while giving a nice visual feedback, it may be nice. One may argue that it is overkill because it needs a description of the boot processes dependencies, but maybe it's not overkill. After all, make needs a description of dependencies, and we all use it. -- St�phane Gourichon - Labo. d'Informatique de Paris 6 - AnimatLab http://animatlab.lip6.fr/ - philo du dimanche http://amphi-gouri.org/
